We want to create the fastest, the most accurate and the most comfortable touchscreen keyboard in the World. Why Keybee In 1863 Christopher Sholes wanted to fix the jams on typewriters. For this reason he moved to the opposite the most frequent letters and letter-pairs to improve typing with both hands. The qwerty keyboard was invented. The success of qwerty was so huge that the same layout is still used today as input device on computer keyboard. In 2007 the mobile world became touch friendly. Smartphones and tablets became our daily pocket computer and the touchscreen was introduced to use the phone with one hand. But typing on a physical keyboard and on a touchscreen is not the same: they use different number of fingers to type and different gestures like swipe. So sharing the same qwerty layout is not efficient. This incompatibility created on qwerty touchscreens an usability problem: the device was adapted to the keyboard. What qwerty brings on touchscreen: 1 - limited key size and useless space between keys 2 - no swipe friendly: slow typing because of the floating between the borders 3 - no ergonomics and unnatural typing: we are forced to type with two hands or switch the phone to landscape To fix this problem the keyboard should be adapted to the device. This is the reason of Keybee. What Keybee brings on touchscreen: 1 - hexagonal structure: the most space efficient structure in Nature which improves the key size in the same device area up to 50% and save background area on bigger screens. 2 - more connections between letters and letter-pairs: improves the typing speed up to 50% and swipe friendly 3 - ergonomics: typing in a natural way with one finger starting from the center of the screen that means no need two hands for typing. Thoughts from the founder The Qwerty on touchscreen is like using a steering wheel on a bicycle: just because I can turn it doesn’t mean that the controller should be like this. A bicycle needs a controller designed for it: the handlebar. A touchscreen needs a keyboard designed for it: Keybee. I want to give Keybee for free because the keyboard is the basic human - device interaction and because it is universal. It involves all People in the World, no matter the age they have, the language they speak or the place they live. And all the greatest tech innovations are free. I would like to thank all the Keybee users who gave me the strength to continue this project even without external investments through their messages and reviews.

1. Keyboard layout for smartphones
tablets and touchscreen devices
keybee
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2. User interaction gestures
How we use touchscreens every day
Touchscreen devices are designed for
one hand and one finger use

3. Qwerty: the problem
1863 2013
Layout invented for typewriters
Today the Qwerty is implemented on touchscreen devices
although designed for different use

4. Is it possible to create a new layout
designed for touchscreens ?

5. Correlation between frequency of use and distance of letters to the center
Different layouts for different languages
Analysis of letter arrangement
linking of common
letter groups
more frequent
less distant
less frequent
more distant

6. Analysis of structure
More space more connections
The hexagonal structure allows a 40% reduction of distance
between keys and a 50% increase of key size
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connections
6
connections

7. Keybee: the solution
The new standard for touchscreen devices

8. Tap & Swipe: Twipe
The number of touches needed to
enter a text is reduced by 50%
Keybee introduces a new way of typing on touchscreen

9. Don’t let me think
Qwerty
simple and instant
not designed for touch
simple and instant
designed for touch
Keybee
complex and not instant
designed for touch
alternative layouts
Keybee is simple, instant and designed for touchscreen devices

10. Keybee efficiency
Compared to the standard qwerty soft keyboard
+50%bigger size & speed entry

11. Multiple windows, one keyboard
Split screen

12. Third party algorithms
Overview of the most used android keyboards
Keybee could improve its efficiency thanks the
implementation of prediction algorithms
Swiftkey
type: qwerty prediction
downloads: 10 - 50 million
Swype Keyboard
type: qwerty prediction
downloads: 0,5 - 1 million

13. Keybee team
Marco Papalia: Developer (founder)
development, managementl
Jelena Cop: Architect
brand, designl
Achieved Results
PCT patent registered in 46 Countries
Keybee Android available on Google Play with 36.000 downloads
Domain and trademark: www.keybee.it
Award: National Italian Award for innovation in Computer Science 2014

14. Keybee brings to the World a real innovation
Jump to the future
www.keybee.it