Qi Shiqing (left) and Yang Yimeng display the hand shaped keyboard they invented. Newspaper reporter Li Fei
recently, in the exhibition room of the invention of eleven Road Primary School in Ji'nan, the reporter saw the ergonomics keyboard invented by two girls in class six (4) in class Yang Yimeng and Qi Shiqing.
this human keyboard model is quite different from the ordinary keyboard we use everyday. In appearance, it is the shape of the two palm, and the 26 letters are arranged in orderly order on two palms. Keys such as numeric keys, space keys, enter keys, touch screens are placed between hands and palm. The other buttons are inlaid in turn on the top of the palm. Why do
Why do you want to invent such a unique hand - shaped keyboard? Yang Yimeng and Qi Shiqing agree that they are not familiar with the alphabet distribution of the ordinary computer keyboard, and they play a very slow speed. In how to improve the speed of typing, they suddenly come up with the idea: "if there was a hand - shaped keyboard, the letters were arranged in sequence on the corresponding fingers, so wouldn't it be easy to start a word?"
the encouragement and reference of Chen Zhenfeng, a teacher in the school's creative activity class and vice director of the dean of the educational office. Guided by this, Yang Yimeng and Qi Shiqing began to try to create.
they found the cardboard, carved two ordinary palm shapes, and removed the keys from the ordinary keyboard.
typing is the most basic skill requirement of the computer, but the alphabetical arrangement of the ordinary keyboard brings great difficulties to the beginners and the elderly, and the order of English letters is remembered by everyone. Yang Yimeng said, at first, they arranged the alphabet alphabetical order in two hands, and placed all other function keys on the keyboard. According to the dexterity of fingers, the thumb is distributed 1 letters, the index finger distributes 4, the middle finger and the ring finger each distribute 3, the small thumb distributes 2.
after about a week's efforts, Yang Yimeng and Qi Shiqing two turned the hand keyboard from creativity to reality. According to the principles of bionics, they call this keyboard model the "human engineering keyboard".
although there is a prototype, but after excitement, two people soon found that there were many problems. "Alphabetical order in the fingers, solves the problem of unordered letters and inconvenient memory. But the function keys distributed over the palm of the palm are not convenient to operate. Yang Yimeng said.
next, the two men made many modifications together. The second time, they placed the keys of numeric keys, space keys, enter keys, Touchscreens and other keys between the two palms and palms to solve the problem of inconvenient use of functional keys. The third time, they added a warm reminder to the keyboard, "please protect me, use no more than 2 hours each time!"
"next, we will further modify and improve." Qi Shiqing said. Chen Zhenfeng told reporters that the school is inventing patents for two students' works, and hopes to really produce applications in the future.