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		<description>Thanks for the comment.

There isn&#039;t too much of a research for smartphones, everyone just seems to settle on all too familiar QWERTY. Also, there is at least one research that I&#039;m aware of, made some years ago, about character frequencies and a keyboard design based on the results. Though, if I remember right, the keyboard design was based on the principle that most frequent characters were on the middle, rarest being at the borders, whereas the concept that the article talks about needs more in-depth language research to define the specific layout for reducing &quot;misclicks&quot; (letters which are most least to appear side by side in a word are placed side by side in the keyboard)

Although, one could make a basic keyboard design based on frequencies, where the most frequent characters are placed well apart from each other. Also I would think of placing them in a brick-wall like pattern, which would help to determine some of the misclicks with rows. (ie. if two keys on a same row are pressed with a key between the two, on a row above, one could guestimate that the actual target was the key on the row above, the two keys below just happened to be pressed at the same time by accident. Of course this works both ways.)

I would also lean more towards the horizontal layout since, when you are grabbing something with both of your hands, it&#039;s easier to move your thumbs sideways (just by using 2nd and 3rd joint of your thumb), rather than up and down, specially if you need to move farther up/down, forcing you to ever so slightly change your grip on the thing you&#039;re holding. Also, horizontal layout would leave space for the text on top, making navigating and/or reading the text, you are writing, easier.

Vertical layout however, would fit nicely for one handed input, since both sides of the keyboard would be reachable by single thumb, and the effortless thumb movement (2nd and 3rd joint) would be vertical when you&#039;re holding a phone vertically. Although, since this is much less accurate posture I would go for larger buttons and maybe even double-tap feature, something like the old phone keyboard have where you have number and three characters per key, thus making it possible to have even larger buttons and hopefully less error-prone setup.

Also, there are few concepts around, RETYPE being the most recent one (http://www.mintusability.com/2008/11/29/retype-the-text-in-your-iphone/).</description>
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<p>There isn&#8217;t too much of a research for smartphones, everyone just seems to settle on all too familiar QWERTY. Also, there is at least one research that I&#8217;m aware of, made some years ago, about character frequencies and a keyboard design based on the results. Though, if I remember right, the keyboard design was based on the principle that most frequent characters were on the middle, rarest being at the borders, whereas the concept that the article talks about needs more in-depth language research to define the specific layout for reducing &#8220;misclicks&#8221; (letters which are most least to appear side by side in a word are placed side by side in the keyboard)</p>
<p>Although, one could make a basic keyboard design based on frequencies, where the most frequent characters are placed well apart from each other. Also I would think of placing them in a brick-wall like pattern, which would help to determine some of the misclicks with rows. (ie. if two keys on a same row are pressed with a key between the two, on a row above, one could guestimate that the actual target was the key on the row above, the two keys below just happened to be pressed at the same time by accident. Of course this works both ways.)</p>
<p>I would also lean more towards the horizontal layout since, when you are grabbing something with both of your hands, it&#8217;s easier to move your thumbs sideways (just by using 2nd and 3rd joint of your thumb), rather than up and down, specially if you need to move farther up/down, forcing you to ever so slightly change your grip on the thing you&#8217;re holding. Also, horizontal layout would leave space for the text on top, making navigating and/or reading the text, you are writing, easier.</p>
<p>Vertical layout however, would fit nicely for one handed input, since both sides of the keyboard would be reachable by single thumb, and the effortless thumb movement (2nd and 3rd joint) would be vertical when you&#8217;re holding a phone vertically. Although, since this is much less accurate posture I would go for larger buttons and maybe even double-tap feature, something like the old phone keyboard have where you have number and three characters per key, thus making it possible to have even larger buttons and hopefully less error-prone setup.</p>
<p>Also, there are few concepts around, RETYPE being the most recent one (<a href="http://www.mintusability.com/2008/11/29/retype-the-text-in-your-iphone/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mintusability.com/2008/11/29/retype-the-text-in-your-iphone/</a>).</p>
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		<description>Besides the Dvorak, have you seen any research on optimal keyboard layouts for the smartphone form factor?  It would seem that the paradigm of using two thumbs in a more vertical layout, as opposed to ten fingers in a horizontal one, would change the optimal key placement.  I&#039;m actually interested in writing a virtual keyboard along these principles for smartphones.</description>
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