Virtual keyboard layout optimization

The use of virtual keyboards is becoming ubiquitous with increasing use in mobile devices and touch-screens. Till now the research has mainly focused on developing layouts which support high typing speed, but the error aspect has been largely ignored. This research aims at developing a novel error model which relates accuracy with a given layout using the distance between keys. The main idea here is that the error model should predict the error rate by the layout specification alone.

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