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				<title>Re: X-Fu Layout</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p> X-fu compared to Colemak: </p> <ul> <li>Not easy to learn, moves many more keys </li> <li>Doesn't retain ZXCV in their QWERTY places </li> <li>Keeps the semicolon in the home position. </li> <li>Colemak has the Backspace on the home row, which makes it easier and faster to correct errors. </li> <li>X-fu has 15% more finger distance </li> <li>X-fu has 150% more same-finger typing than Colemak </li> <li>X-fu has 100% more same-hand row jumping </li> <li>X-fu doesn't take into account hand balance and finger balance. The right hand is overworked, and the right index and ring finger are overloaded. </li> <li>X-fu is a work in progress. Colemak's design is considered stable. </li> </ul>
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				<title>X-Fu Layout</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p> URL(s) to keyboard layout image(s):<br /> <a href="http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/images/english_01.png">http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/images/english_01.png</a> </p> <p> Single sentence description:<br /> X-Fu layout has been generated to minimize typing effort of English text using an effort model which includes effort contribution from stroke path. </p> <p> Full description:<br /> The X-Fu layout is a keyboard layout which makes typing English text much easier than QWERTY (not hard), Dvorak (not hard), as well as Capwell and Colemak (harder) <a href="http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?keyboard_layouts">see full comparison</a>. The layout was generated using simulated annealing and a typing effort model which attempts to quantify the notion of hand and finger strain during typing. The model describes effort using </p> <ul> <li>individual key location weights (e.g. keys assigned to the pinky require more effort) </li> <li>long-range correlation in effort in which previous key strokes are used to weight the effort of successive ones </li> <li>stroke path, composed of components that monitor hand, row and finger motion to maximize the number of successive key strokes that are more comfortable (e.g. those with hand-alternation [afa], monotonic row progression [tab vs bta], monotonic finger progression [wer vs erw], and so on) </li> </ul> <p> The X-Fu layout is generated by starting with the QWERTY layout and relocating only the character keys. Unlike Dvorak and other layouts <a href="http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?keyboard_layouts">see layout table</a>, X-Fu has all its punctuation in the same location as QWERTY. </p> <p> I am working on other layouts in which punctuation is remapped. </p>
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