TheKALQ keyboard (dubbed after the order the keys appear in the keyboard, analogous toQWERTY) is akeyboard layout that has been developed by researchers at theMontana Tech,University of St Andrews and theMax Planck Institute for Informatics as asplit-screenkeyboard for thumb-typing, which is claimed to allow a 34% increase in speed of typing for the people who usetouchscreen. KALQ was released as a free app, albeit a beta, forAndroid-basedsmartphones.[1][2][3][4][5] Although the KALQ project received some buzz in tech media, as of early 2017, the latest public version is dated October 2013, and still labelled a beta.
To create KALQ, the team used computational optimisation techniques, in conjunction with a model of thumb movement, to search among millions of potential layouts before identifying one that yields superior performance.
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