Majid asked a few questions about keyboards in various languages. Having watched the Persian / Arabic keyboard used in a painfully slow manner by most Iranians I know, what is immediately obvious is that the current keyboard *may* need a few adjustments. We pre-PC English typers grew up with typewriters and, as a result, are using a keyboard specifically designed to slow down typing: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/qwerty.htm so that the keys wouldn't jam. This is not a problem with a computer and new keyboards have been proposed (some much earlier than the development of the PC), but not yet widely adopted:
http://tinyurl.com/5lzpb3, http://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html, http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html . So, good luck with your project. Maybe your university will get you a few articles: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=7341812 , http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=67933.67934 (check out the References, there are several articles cited that you might want to get) Tori ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
