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From: nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: chord keyboard faster than traditional keyboard?
Message-ID: <2952@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 03:18:19 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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   I read an article about chord keyboard in the Washington Post
(mon., sep. 18, 1989, p. A3).  It was written by Malcolm Gladwell
and its title is "Redesigning Illogical Keyboards".

   A Virinia engineer Larry Langley is developing
a chord keyboard w/ the help of the Navy.  The kbd has 8 keys,
4 for each hand, and each key has two positions (front and back).
One plays one key from each hand simultaneously and we have 8 X 8 = 64
combinations.  Karl Kroemer (working on a chording system) said,

   the success of chording depends on how you measure performance.
   if you measure just output speed, it's (chord kbd) not as good.
   but if you measure the health of the operator and accuracy,
   then things look quite different.

k kim