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We may be able to finally say that we have cracked the code to the QWERTY keyboard design by finding both a logical and symmetrical mapping of the alphabet to the keys. We distinguish letters in the alphabet that have a right boundary characteristic. We use these letters to structure a pair of matrices whose column-selected sets directly map to a collage of symmetric QWERTY keyboard patterns. These matrix-selected sets can be used for teaching the QWERTY, for combining QWERTY sets with different soft keyboards, and possibly for assisting research related to cognitive informatics.
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Hibbs, E. (2007). QWERTY: A System of Logic and Symmetry?. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_34
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