RADICALLY NEW FEATURES OF THE POSITIVE KEYBOARD
Abstract
The article highlights a new alternative to traditional keyboards - a positive keyboard. The positive keyboard sharply reduces the complexity of the keyboard, namely the number of keys from 30 to 9 by increasing the length of a codeword from 1 to 2. This is made possible by graphical support, which is laid out in the geometry of the 9-key layout. One or two of these keys generate a signal, and the rest, as it turns out, can be quite close in their shape to the entered characters. That's why this keyboard is positive: all of its 9 keys are useful at any time, unlike traditional keyboards, which have a performance of 1/30 (approximately 3%). Therefore, a positive keyboard does not require marking, which is also a source of errors. Thanks to this, a positive keyboard frees up the creative abilities of a person.
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