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Experience with alternate twiddler keymaps

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:03:04 -0400 (EDT)

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Despite having learned the default key map that comes with the 
Twiddler, I've decided to abandon it and go with something more 
natural. So far, the only thing I've found that really matches 
my thinking was the post from "jfm3" (Joe Miklojcik) on 
2001 0327. His seems mostly a good map, except for some minor 
things such as the letter "s" being a 2-column chord (I'd 
rather have it be something easier, perhaps replacing the "f" 
mapping). Has anyone tried this particular key map, or others 
like it? If so, could you please share the good and the bad 
about them?

Also, does anyone know if Handykey has looked into an alternative 
key mapping and perhaps even studied it a bit? It is obvious 
that a lot of thought and care went into the design of the 
Twiddler, so I was frankly surprised at the lack of alternatives 
to the default key map, which is reminescent of the QWERTY 
keyboard. The latter uses inertia, and the former "cognitive 
harmony" as rationals for an ordering that is far from being 
functional. Ideally, I'd like to see a way to quickly input 
key maps into the twiddler (yes, the auto-chord is very nice). 
More realistically, I'd like to see at least a couple of 
"alternative" key maps built into the twiddler, so you can 
quickly switch between major "key map" modes.

The original post that contains the key mapping can 
be found here:

http://wearables.blu.org/wear-hard-01/20011863.html

Thanks in advance. I'm typing on a normal keyboard until 
I get a new key layout finalized, to minimize the impact 
on my nuerons. :)

Greg Sabino Mullane
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