[Project-ideas] Proposal for "New keyboard layout specific to input on mobile devices"

[Suvonil Chatterjee]

With just 2 days to go, it will be really helpful if the mentors could
suggest some ways to make the proposal stronger. Also, I was wondering if
should push the small experiments I did with the SoftKeyboard to git and
share it with my proposal.

Thanks,

*Suvonil Chatterjee*
*Undergraduate Student, BITS Pilani <http://bits-pilani.ac.in>.*

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*UI Architect, *Framebench(Previously Anaya Labs).

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Suvonil Chatterjee <suvonil at gmail.com>wrote:

>  there are a couple of keyboard layouts/input methods available on the
>> Android Market (Play). Have you had a chance to look at them ?
>
> That was the very first thing I did. I downloaded the MultiLing keyboard<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klye.ime.latin&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rbHllLmltZS5sYXRpbiJd>and the Mayabi keyboard(which turned out incompatible with my SGS II). The
> multiLing keyboard has a decent layout (with matras on one side and the
> consonants on the other). However, I didn't understand the thought process
> behind the location of the consonants. Some of the more used ones where at
> a greater distance for the thumb as compared to other less used ones. Also,
> the rendering of conjuncts was messed up (may be it's because of my phone).
> The fast prediction system was pretty impressive. What I understood was the
> need for a better layout, a more intuitive entry system and bigger keys.
>
>   Additionally, did you include within your study time, any reading on
>> the why and how of the currently available layouts for Bengali ?
>
> Yes. I made it a point to read up as much as possible about Bengali (and
> Hindi/Devnagri) keyboards and the design principles involved in each. The
> keyboard layouts I read up about are Baishakhi Inscript Layout,
> Uni-Geetanjali Layout, Samit Toptype Layout and WEBEL Layout and
> also comparative studies on their performance. Apart from these, I also
> went through soft keyboard implementations of popular English keyboard
> styles (like Dvorak, Fitaly, Opti, Cirrin, Lewis etc.) in Bengali.
>
> *Suvonil Chatterjee*
> *Undergraduate Student, BITS Pilani <http://bits-pilani.ac.in>.*
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> *
> *Design Intern, *Rovio.
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> *UI Architect, *Framebench(Previously Anaya Labs).
>
> *Lead Design , *TunePatrol.
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>
> My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://facebook.com/suvonil> [image:
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> Contact: 91 666 84 822
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> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
> sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Suvonil Chatterjee <suvonil at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I'm Suvonil, currently in my second year of Electronics Engineering
>> @ BITS Pilani. I've been lurking around the mailing list and the irc
>> channel for the last 10-12 days but didn't introduce myself till I had done
>> some solid work. It's been really exciting to go through all the factors
>> that are considered while designing a keyboard layout, the challenges one
>> faces with Indic languages and brainstorming about the same with my
>> friends. The small test runs with trying to render ASCII characters on the
>> keys in Android served as a reminder that nothing worth doing is ever easy.
>> Anyways, I finally submitted my proposal last night.
>>
>> I'll probably end up asking this and more on the proposal, but here's
>> a preliminary query - there are a couple of keyboard layouts/input
>> methods available on the Android Market (Play). Have you had a chance
>> to look at them ? Additionally, did you include within your study
>> time, any reading on the why and how of the currently available
>> layouts for Bengali ?
>>
>> --
>> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
>> <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
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