keyboard distance

English

Noun

keyboard distance (plural keyboard distances)

  1. The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
    • 2014, Bhaskar Mitra, Milad Shokouhi, Filip Radlinski, Katja Hofmann, “On user interactions with query auto-completion”, in Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval‎, Keyboard distance., pages 1055–1058:
      We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys
      based on the minimum number of adjacent keys that the finger
      must travel over to reach one from the other assuming a QWERTY
      keyboard layout. For example the keyboard distance for the {a,s}
      pair is 1 and {a,c} is 3 (based on the path a→s→d→c) by this
      definition.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard,‎ distance.
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