Thanks Valerie! It's not so much that I want to develop an efficient or QWERTY keyboard, just that I was curious whether Yair started from one of those principles. :)

Like you, I've used differently arranged keyboards in different countries and I imagine it's mostly a matter of developing habits that make typing efficient.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Woehrmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi - I'm enjoying the presentation from home. I'm not sure how to ask questions live..;-(((

Would it be possible to get a demonstration on how long it takes to write a sentence with this keypoard without using a dictionary in the background?

Can you write the sentence in ASL   "SignWriting is a wonderful invention."

All best Stefan

2015-07-21 17:32 GMT+02:00 Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway <[log in to unmask]>:

Hi all! I'm enjoying the presentation from home. I'm not sure how to ask questions live (and I remember the difficulties caused last year when too many people tried to participate at once), so I thought I'd post questions here, to be answered later at people's convenience.

So, Yair, this is really great. A quick question: in setting up the keyboard, how did you decide where to place different elements on the split board? I'm interested in the physical skill/habits involved in typing. Given that this is a different type of writing system, I'm wondering what research you might have done to come up with a layout that might be physically efficient, or perhaps intuitive for those accustomed to using a qwerty keyboard, or whether there were other kinds of considerations.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

SignWriting List

June 30, 2015

SignWriting Symposium 2015

12 presentations from 8 countries: 

Brazil, Canada, Germany, Nicaragua, Portugual, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, USA

Broadcasting 3 presentations a day, for 4 days.

Day 1: July 21

Session 1: CANADA: Yair Rand

Session 2: SAUDI ARABIA: Mohamed AbuShaira & Abd elraroof Mahfooz

Session 3: USA: Stephen E. Slevinski, Jr.

Day 2: July 22

Session 1: GERMANY: Stefan Woehrmann

Session 2: CANADA: André Lemyre

Session 3: BRAZIL: Marcos Kluber Kogut

Day 3: July 23

Session 1: PORTUGAL: Rafaela Cota de Silva

Session 2: BRAZIL: Ronnie Fagundes de Brito, Messias Ramos Costa, Milton Shintaku, Sandra Patricia Nascimento

Session 3: USA: Stephen E. Slevinski, Jr.

Day 4: July 24

Session 1: NICARAGUA & USA: James Shepard-Kegl

Session 2: GERMANY: Paul Rutrecht, Joachim Nitschke, Janina Lentfohr

Session 3: TUNISIA: Mohamed Ali Khenissi & Yosra Bouzid

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Time Zones of Sessions:

Broadcasting 3 presentations a day, for 4 days.

PDT - Pacific Daylight Time (La Jolla is in San Diego County, California)

Session 1:  8:00 - 9:00

    Break: 9:00 - 9:30

Session 2:  9:30 -10:30

    Break: 10:30 - 11:00

Session 3: 11:00 -12:00

CST - Central Standard Time (Nicaragua is 1 hour ahead of San Diego)

Session 1:  9:00 - 10:00

    Break: 10:00 - 10:30

Session 2:  10:30 -11:30

    Break: 11:30 - 12:00

Session 3: 12:00 -13:00

CDT - Central Daylight Time (Iowa is 2 hours ahead of San Diego))

Session 1: 10:00 - 11:00

    Break: 11:00 -11:30

Session 2:  11:30 -12:30

    Break: 12:30 - 13:00

Session 3: 13:00 -14:00

EDT - Eastern Daylight Time (Maine, Canada, Quebec are 3 hours ahead of San Diego))

Session 1:  11:00 - 12:00

    Break: 12:00 - 12:30

Session 2:  12:30 -13:30

    Break: 13:30 - 14:00

Session 3: 14:00 -15:00

BRT - Brazilia Time ( Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil is 4 hours ahead of San Diego)

Session 1:  12:00 - 13:00

    Break: 13:00 - 13:30

Session 2:  13:30 -14:30

    Break: 14:30 - 15:00

Session 3: 15:00 -16:00

WEST - Western European Summer Time (Portugal & Tunisia are 8 hours ahead of San Diego)

Session 1:  16:00 - 17:00

    Break: 17:00 - 17:30

Session 2:  17:30 -18:30

    Break: 18:30 - 19:00

Session 3: 19:00 -20:00

CEST - Central European Summer Time (Germany is 9 hours ahead of San Diego)

Session 1:  17:00 - 18:00

    Break: 18:00 - 18:30

Session 2:  18:30 -19:30

    Break: 19:30 - 20:00

Session 3: 20:00 -21:00

AST - Arabia Standard Time (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is 10 hours ahead of San Diego)

Session 1:  18:00 - 19:00

    Break: 19:00 - 19:30

Session 2:  19:30 -20:30

    Break: 20:30 - 21:00

Session 3: 21:00 -22:00

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