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From: avr@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (adam.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: one-finger keyboard
Summary: Telegraph key
Message-ID: <1259@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 00:08:21 GMT
References: <1989Oct6.221013.8269@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1989Oct6.221013.8269@agate.berkeley.edu>, adams@herb-ox.berkeley.edu (Jeffrey P. Adams) writes:
> I'm working on developing an optimal keyboard (not QWERTY or ABCDE)
> for *one-fingered* typing, and am looking for:
> 1. general advice.  Does anyone know any good references (human or
>    written)  on the subject?

There is a large literature, dating back to the 1920s and earlier,
on skilled manual telegraphy. I suspect that the optimal one-finger
keyboard is one with only one key - serial modulation is faster
than spatial search, at least for a skilled user.

				Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com