With the advent of soft keyboard on the touch screen, there should exist a mechanism to rearrange the keys as per convenience or usage or need.
Customization has paved its way in almost anything so why should the heavily used thing like keyboard stay behind? If given an option it would be nice to experiment by rearranging the keys of the keyboard for better efficiency. Say, I am a left-handed user, and there are a set of keys that are used more than others. It would be easier for me to group that set towards the left or as per my convenience. The same stands true for the specially-abled (with 1 hand or otherwise) to regroup the keys as per convenience.
I had noticed several times people using fingers of single hand to type on device. It looks very funny to see their fingers moving from one end of keyboard to another to enter a single sentence.
Now since the handheld devices have soft keyboards it seems a possibility to have re-arrangable keyboards where keys can be arranged on the basis of: 1. Usage of Keys (most used keys grouped together) 2. Customized arrangement (user drags the desired keys to his preferred placement position)
ADV:
It offers:
1. Choice to users to create a keyboard of their choice.
2. Opens up numerous possibilities for the specially-abled as well.
WORKING:
1. While the soft keyboard is visible, each key when pressed for long may become eligible for dragging to the desired place.
2. As it is dragged, the internal remapping also occurs of the moved keys.
3. Once the user is done, the changed key board becomes his default keyboard.
4. It can also be programmed to keep stock of the number of times each key is being used.
Additional Options: 1. The stored keyboard could be exported to cloud so that the user may use the same keyboard on other devices too. 2. Reset option 3. Automatic arrangement - usage-based or alphabetical or others.
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