Timeline for Should 'ABC' keyboard layout be used in single-purpose devices?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 6:21 | comment | added | Kit Grose | I love the example from Apple TV, because one of the main reasons to retain a keyboard layout is to allow typists to leverage their muscle memory for your device. Once there's a layer of abstraction between your fingers and the letters, QWERTY et al are very illogical ways to lay keys out (especially because touch typists can't necessarily remember the precise location of each letter on a keyboard; they do it by "feel"). | |
| Jun 25, 2013 at 19:46 | history | edited | Koen Lageveen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
typo and clarified the variations required for i18n
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| Jun 17, 2013 at 20:06 | history | edited | Koen Lageveen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added internationalization considerations
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| Jun 17, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | Koen Lageveen | Jup, that's true and an angle I didn't originally consider. I'll edit it into my answer. However, I haven't seen any research either. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | JohnGB♦ | @KoenLageveen I would argue that being shown a keyboard with keys in an order that you know (assuming you know what alphabetical order is) is better than showing someone a keyboard in an order that they don't know. I suspect that is why the ABC keyboard is used, but I have no data to back this up. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 19:33 | comment | added | Koen Lageveen | @JohnGB You're totally right. It really is not just ABC vs QWERTY. "QWERTY" in my answer should read "local standard or anything the user prefers". Which makes me think going for ABC might also be a way to circumvent the i18n issue. If in your country (e.g. Belgium) AZERTY is the standard, perhaps a QWERTY is going to be just as bad as ABC. It's so easy to assume QWERTY as an international standard, but it's not really. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 14:50 | comment | added | Dominik Oslizlo | That's true, but ABC does not address this issue. Actually, the topic of national keyboard layouts is somethind on top of it. In Poland, where I live, there is one keyboard commonly used in computing - QWERTY, with some keys entered with AltGr (e.g. alt+a = ą). Interestingly, we have two modifications of z, which are ż (alt+z) and ź (alt+x), so almost everyone who has used a computer is familiar with this layout. Maybe not everyone who uses GPS has used a computer, but I believe it is a vast majority. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 9:03 | comment | added | JohnGB♦ | Having seen a qwerty layout doesn't mean that someone will be comfortable using it. Many people use improved layouts or country specific ones. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 8:41 | comment | added | Dominik Oslizlo | I totally agree with the staggering in 3 lines prerequisity. Regarding dyslexia - this article on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia states that only 5-10% of people suffer from dyslexia. So my guessing is that (assuming that keys can be arranged in three lines, of course) this should be turned on 'on demand' the same way as accessibility options for vision impaired people. Yet, it is often like this by default, so 90-95% of people potentially suffer from this status quo. | |
| Jun 17, 2013 at 8:31 | history | answered | Koen Lageveen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |