That may work. I could remove the LCD and that would free space for small track ball or touch pad. It would require slight hand move but not too bad. Maybe small touch screen would be best. I'll add this to the options to consider.
I'm not afraid about software. That is my primary job I do almost all my life at many problem domains, abstraction levels and with many programming languages.
Yeah, this is off topic. The thread starter wanted some Kinesis like models. K80CS is one of them and the thread on deskthority has many links to contoured keyboard projects. There is plenty of them now ... unlike the time when Katy project started