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Keybee: a new keyboard layout designed specifically for touchscreen devices

38 点作者 se7entime超过 7 年前

20 条评论

cdirkx超过 7 年前
Looking at this Keybee layout it seems not very usable. The biggest change when typing on touchscreen is using your two thumbs instead of ten fingers, and IMO for the flow is more important that letters alternate the left (L) and right (R) thumb, instead of minimizing distance. This way one finger can move while the other is pressing. I'll take their "Hello there is a starman waiting in the sky" as an example. On a qwerty layout the letters you type with L and R are evenly distributed and the longest run with the same thumb is 3: "There" is LRLLL. On Keybee however, the same sentence is typed almost entirely with the right thumb (dominant hand, so I would probably use it to type the middle letters W, H, A and space). Now the longest run is 16! I guess this would be a bit more balanced is I figured out which of the middle keys to take with my left thumb, but it doesnt seem worth it especially with the enormous keyboard. As part of the younger generation I can type blind and relatively fast and error free on touchscreen. If you really need to type a long email just switch to a regular keyboard, having ten fingers typing is much faster than any layout using only your thumbs will achieve.
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infodroid超过 7 年前
Writing anything on modern touchscreen smartphones is so frustrating. I think the problem is that the touchscreen is always going to be an inferior interface to a physical button.<p>I remember what it was like using PDAs and smartphones with actual physical keys. After a brief period of adjustment to a new device, I was soon typing without any mistakes. It was such a low-friction transfer of my thoughts to digital form, I took it for granted it would always be that easy.<p>I look forward to trying one of the new Blackberry phones for my next upgrade.
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mankash666超过 7 年前
They should have two layout options: Qwerty &amp; Keybee. After all, the hexagonal keys save space with qwerty as well.
badsectoracula超过 7 年前
&gt; Yes, all the greatest tech innovations are free. So Keybee is free and it will be always free because the keyboard is the basic human<p>&gt; Keybee was invented, developed and patented by Marco Papalia<p>That is dishonest, it isn&#x27;t free if it is encumbered by patents. Also i&#x27;m not sure how this works considering the author is from Italy and EU doesn&#x27;t consider software patentable.
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petercooper超过 7 年前
&quot;swipe typing&quot; is already streets ahead speed-wise on mobile devices. One touch per word. And having a little travel distance is actually a benefit as it helps distinguish the words.
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morganvachon超过 7 年前
I&#x27;m confused by this statement:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;Keybee is simple and clear because all the letters are always available (no hidden keys) and they all have the same size&quot;</i><p>Checking my iPhone and my wife&#x27;s Android phone, as well as an old Windows Phone I have in a drawer, all of the letters of the alphabet are available on the default board, none are hidden, and they are all the same size as each other on each respective keyboard.<p>At first I thought you might be talking about non-English keyboards, but looking at the Keybee board screenshots it&#x27;s the same standard 26 English letters.<p>So, from that particular standpoint, how does Keybee offer a more complete set of English language characters than a device&#x27;s default keyboard? This feels like either a bad translation or dubious marketing.
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btym超过 7 年前
I don&#x27;t see the point... QWERTY is great for touch screens, for the same reason it was great for typewriters: common letter combinations are spaced out. Typing with two thumbs on a small screen is comfortable due to greater space between keys and high rate of alternating hands.
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CapacitorSet超过 7 年前
I think the concept is cool, I&#x27;ve always been interested in alternative input methods. However, I agree that patenting it is bullshit.<p>The keyboard is interesting, it takes a while to get used to the new layout but once you get the hang of it it seems fun.
tinco超过 7 年前
I just enabled it. I&#x27;m still a bit slow but so far it seems there&#x27;s less fat fingering. I&#x27;m in the smaller phones camp so I guess fat fingering is a larger issue for me than it is for most who prefer the big flagship phones.
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papaly1983超过 7 年前
Thank you for the comments. Please note that I made this Keybee Keyboard first for myself because I could not type good in a qwerty smartphone. Secondly I decided to make it for everyone and give it for free (free apps and no ads). I invested a lot of time, passion and money just to create a better typing experience for more people. I also decided to protect my idea because, in case of success, I can tranform this project in a full time job. There&#x27;s nothing wrong on that an nobody obliges you to use it as your definitive keyboard. Happy 2018..!!! Marco. ;-)
kristianlm超过 7 年前
Interesting! I&#x27;m glad to see so many people are willing to learn a new keyboard layout. I was looking at alternative keyboard layout for touch-screens for a while, and ended up coding my own. It&#x27;s based on two-thumbs input and the layout is designed for alternating between them. There are only 5 buttons on each side&#x2F;thumb so you don&#x27;t really miss. You can swipe for special keys like enter, backspace, symbols, emoji etc, and so you should have the whole input spectrum available.<p>I&#x27;ve used it for over a year now. My friends beat me when their dictionary is on. But without it, I&#x27;m around 30% faster. For writing commands, code or formulas - it&#x27;s superior, and that&#x27;s why I like it.<p>It took me about 3 weeks to get on par with a normal dictionary-less QUERTY. Learning new layouts like this takes really long as it has to go into your muscle memory before you feel comfortable. I guess that&#x27;s why we&#x27;re still stuck with QUERTY (which was designed to slow down typing on mechanical typewriters).<p>It might be worth checking out for the technically-inclined. It&#x27;s open source and as far as I know - patent free. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Adellica&#x2F;Thumbkeyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Adellica&#x2F;Thumbkeyboard</a>.
jdietrich超过 7 年前
I&#x27;ll have a &quot;P&quot; please, Bob.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7Kes23z_oAw?t=2m1s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;7Kes23z_oAw?t=2m1s</a>
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wscott超过 7 年前
Does that website really just have a single sentence of explanation? I was looking for the theory of what it is trying to solve and why they choose that particular layout. And ideally, some reasonably done studies to demonstrate that it is an improvement.
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juliushuijnk超过 7 年前
MessageEase keyboard works great for me. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.exideas.mekb&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.exideas.me...</a><p>Once you have it in your muscle memory, you can sort of type blindly and use symbols as quick as other letters. It doesn&#x27;t look like KeyBee can improve my typing.
dsego超过 7 年前
The 4&#x2F;5 setup screen is confusing because the OK button is hidden. I actually though it wanted me to type in PLAY and got frustrated until I figured out it was just an animation. But I couldn&#x27;t see the button until I scrolled accidentally and the OK button appeared.
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majikandy超过 7 年前
I really like the twipe straight up from &#x27;123&#x27; through &#x27;.&#x27; to &#x27; &#x27; but it feels like an implementation mistake not to consider that action a space after a dot which is supposed to return the keyboard to ABC. Instead it stays on 123.
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Fnoord超过 7 年前
Does it work in landscape mode? I had some odd issues with landscape mode where the keyboard seemed to be in portrait mode instead, overlaying my other app (WhatsApp in this case).
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jaclaz超过 7 年前
I think a small line should be drawn between &quot;touchscreen devices&quot; and &quot;handheld small touchscreen devices&quot; (please read as &quot;smartphones&quot;).
simooooo超过 7 年前
It&#x27;s just too much muscle involved to switch layouts
swrobel超过 7 年前
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