QWERTY: A system of logic and symmetry?

Abstract

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. © 2007 Springer.