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The animated (translation) transitions seems everything but ergonomic to me.

For instance, static touch controls grid are pretty efficient, see:

http://www.malacria.fr/pdf/gutwin14-fasttap.pdf http://www.malacria.fr/video/fasttap-video.mp4

Interesting research. Of course, you could always hack the Home button to act as a Command key and hold the device in landscape orientation without having to give up a piece of the screen.

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