The keyboard is a core part of the computer, but it’s also international. Just like how we speak different languages, the keyboard has different layouts. The most standard is the QWERTY English ...

The dedicated function keys, which appear on the top row of the standard keyboard layout, carry numbers F1 through F12 on notebook keyboards and F1 through F15 on full-sized desktop keyboards.

A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, ...

No keyboard layout will ever convince me that this particular spot shouldn't be a giant empty crater where no finger is asked to go. Every F on Dvorak takes me about five tries to get it right.

That should make it a great keyboard for that Venn-diagram crossover of gamers and design fanatics who also want a computer keyboard straight out of the 1930s.

30-second video for promoting the talk to CHI conference visitors. Antti Oulasvirta says "The key to optimizing a keyboard for two thumbs is to minimize long sequences with a single thumb.

The reason why the keys on a computer keyboard are not arranged in alphabetical order is because of the way the keyboard was designed. The keyboard layout that we use today is called the QWERTY ...

The modern keyboard, I was told, was a holdover of the mechanical age. Since then, I've heard this story repeated a thousand times. So many times, I had assumed it was true.