Virtual Keyboard Technology

Virtual Keyboard Technology. An ongoing trend in web technologies has been the addition of interactive functions that allow visitors to interact with the content on the page, (i.e. community portals, search engines, etc.). These sites often attract multilingual communities.  As national boundaries in communication fade, however, the language barriers remain.   Some user research has shown that many people are more comfortable formulating search queries or communicating in their own language but have difficulty typing these queries or messages. Imagine, for example, how inconvenienced the user becomes when typing in English on a French keyboard or entering a Russian or an Arabic search query on an English keyboard.  Features such as search, email, forms/surveys, forums, and customer service become unreachable for the users. Typing searches on keyboards not designed for your languages can be frustrating, even impossible. To overcome the...