• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.408-413
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• 2014

The QWERTY type keyboard is a classical device that has been used for computers for a long time. The keyboard design of mobile devices like smartphones is an important issue to consider because of the limited space on the touch screen. This paper presents a design for symbol allocation on the QWERTY type soft keyboard. A 27-cell model, including the full stop (.), is proposed in this paper. A QWERTY type keyboard for smartphones is mainly known for its spatial compatibility, whereas the characters of the ANSI keyboard are allocated to the shoulder positions for functional auxiliary input methods such as the long pressing method.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.54-59
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• 2018

스마트폰과 태블릿PC 등 터치스크린을 활용한 휴대기기의 사용이 늘어나면서 데스크탑 컴퓨터나 노트북으로 수행하던 작업을 스마트폰과 태블릿PC를 이용하여 수행하는 일이 많아졌다. 그런데 휴대성을 갖춰야하는 스마트기기의 특성상, 쿼티 자판은 작은 화면 안에 조밀하게 배치된다. 그리고 이러한 점은 기계식 쿼티 자판을 사용할 때와는 다른 양상의 오타가 발생하는 원인으로 작용한다. 각 버튼이 차지하는 공간이 충분했던 기계식 쿼티 자판과 달리, 터치스크린에서의 쿼티 자판은 각 버튼에 할당되는 영역이 작아 사용자가 누르려고 의도했던 버튼이 아닌 주변의 버튼이 입력되는 경우가 자주 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 어절 유니그램과 바이그램 확률을 이용한 n-gram 언어 모델 방법으로 터치스크린 환경에서 쿼티 자판으로 입력되는 문자 입력 오류를 자동으로 교정하는 방법을 제안하였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.145-156
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• 2017

Objective: This study aims to compare the usability of the adaptive touch design method with that of the height adjustable design method that are applied to the Korean QWERTY keyboard and Naratgul keyboard on smartphones, examine the results, and present practical implications. Background: Smartphone manufacturers have failed to satisfy every user with their uniform touch keyboard designs that do not consider the high use rates of keypad use. In reality, touch keyboard designing customized for every individual is impossible, but there need to be researches on was to improve usability by having touch areas changed automatically depending on user behaviors or having users adjust the keyboard height depending on their hand size. Method: As for the design methods, an object group was given smartphones with the adaptive touch design method and the other group those with the height adjustable design method. As they entered the same characters in the smartphones, typing error rates and text input speed were measured and the average values were compared. 35 individuals who would frequently use smartphones in daily life participated in the experiment. The group variable was the type of touch keyboards, and the test variables were typing error rates and text input speed, for which a T-test was implemented. Results: As for the QWERTY keyboard, the significant improvement effect was verified as the typing error rate of the adaptive touch design method was 4.21% but that of the height adjustable design method was 3.28% although there was no significant difference in terms of text input speed. As for the Naratgul keyboard, in contrast, the typing error rate of the adaptive touch design method was 2.5% while that of the height adjustable design method was 1.48%, which indicates a measure of improvement, but the effect was not significant. On the other hand, the text input speed per minute was improved as much as 22.2%, which is significant. Conclusion: First, the Korean touch keyboard usability of the adaptive touch design method and that of the height adjustable design method, when applied to Model A of Company L, showed significant difference from each other. Second, the height adjustable design method was applied to the QWERTY keyboard, the typing error rate was improved significantly. This indicates that as the keyboard height was raised, the number of buttons within the range of fingering decreased, decreasing the touch bias was reduced. Third, the height adjustable design method was applied to the Naratgul keyboard, the text input speed was improved. Application: When the QWERTY keyboard was applied to a smartphone as small as 5.5inch or less, it is highly probably that the height adjustable design method decreases the typing error rate. It may be considered to develop additional UX functions to make the keyboard font larger or give users the option to adjust button intervals in utilization of the SW advantages of the height adjustable design method.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제43권11호
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• pp.1307-1314
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• 2016

스마트폰 환경에서 천지인, 나랏글, qwerty 등과 같은 가상 키보드들은 문자 입력 버튼의 위치가 고정되어 있으며 기본적으로 문자 버튼의 위치를 인식하는 시각 정보를 기반으로 문자를 입력하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 이처럼 입력할 문자의 위치가 고정되어 있는 버튼 입력 방식은 시각 장애인들이 사용하기에 매우 불편하다. 본 연구는 고정된 위치의 버튼을 기반으로 하는 한글 입력 방식의 불편한 점을 개선하기 위해, 버튼 위치의 시각 인지가 필요하지 않은 손가락 터치 기반의 한글 입력 방식을 제안한다. 자음과 모음의 손가락 터치 동작은 학습 편의성을 위해 한글 자모의 형태와 사용 빈도수, 손가락의 우선 순위 등을 고려하여 설계하였다. 최초 입력시에는 사용자가 직접 기준 위치를 정함으로써 다른 기기의 터치 화면에서도 동일한 인터페이스를 사용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 이 방법은 고유의 손가락 터치 동작들을 각각의 한글 자음과 모음에 할당함으로써 기존의 버튼 터치 방식에서 이웃 버튼을 잘못 입력하는 오류가 발생하지 않기 때문에 의도치 않았던 문자가 잘못 입력되는 오류가 감소되는 장점이 있다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제39호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2000

The aim of this paper is to present a phonetically oriented keyboard array for the International Korean Phonetic Alphabet (IKPA). IKPA is a phonetic alphabet devised on the basis of Hangout (Korean alphabet) (Lee, 1999). Every computer has a keyboard as its input device and the English keyboard array is hewn as 'QWERTY' system, which represents the first six letters of the second line of the keyboard. This array is a traditional one devised to protect the congestion of the keys of the mechanical typewriter. To improve the anay of the keyboard, another system named 'Dvorak' has been devised. Likewise, a serious attempt has been made by the authors to work out an efficient keyboard for IKPA representing the manner of vowel and consonant classification. In the phonetic keyboard, the consonant symbols are arranged in the left hand side according to the Place and mauler of the articulation and the vowel symbols in the right hand side according to the vowel quadrilateral.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.125-130
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• 2001

Skilled typists can type characters or words without looking at keyboard, relying on the finger's relative position. If the relative positions of the fingers can be identified, a virtual keyboard may be accomplished by applying the concept of "DataGlove" or "FingerRing". The virtual keyboard may be efficient as a new mobile input device supporting QWERTY keyboard layout. For the purpose of investigating skilled typing pattern, in this paper the touch-positions of the fingers are measured with a touchscreen while five skilled typists type a long sentence. From these measurements it can be observed that the groups of touch-positions are classified into alphabet characters. Though there are some overlapped groups we can find constant distances capable of being discriminated among the groups from investigation of the change of touch-position for touch-time. Based on the analysis, the prediction algorithm of the constant distance is proposed and evaluated, which is useful for realization of a portable virtual keyboard.le virtual keyboard.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.94-103
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• 2024

안구 입력 시스템은 '아이트래킹 기술'과 '화상키보드 문자 입력 기술'을 기반으로 설계된 디지털 키보드 형식의 문자 입력 시스템이며, 이때 사용하는 화상키보드 구조는 직사각형의 QWERTY 배열로 양손 10개의 손가락을 동시에 활용하는 다중 입력 방식에 최적화된 구조이다. 하지만 '아이트래킹 기술'은 한 개의 초점만으로 입력해야 하는 안구운동 기반의 단일 입력 방식이기 때문에 다중 입력 방식인 직사각형 구조의 화상키보드와 함께 사용할 때 문제점이 발생한다. 이를 해결하고자 우선 안구에 연결된 근육의 형태와 종류 및 움직임에 관한 선행연구를 조사하였다. 그 후 안구의 동작원리가 직선이 아닌 원형으로 움직이는 것을 파악했다. 따라서 본 연구는 양손 입력에 최적화된 현재의 직사각형 구조로 배치된 화상키보드의 키 배열보다 회전운동에 적합한 원형 구조로 배치된 새로운 키 배열을 제안한다. 또한, 기존 직사각형 키 배열과 비교하여 원형 키 배열에 대한 성능 검증 실험을 진행하였고, 실험을 통해서 원형 배열의 키보드로 직사각형 배열 키보드를 대체 가능한지 확인하였다.

• 산업공학
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.329-335
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• 2009

Recently, the use of soft-keyboard is widespread and increases, because various handheld devices were developed such as PDA, navigation, mobile phones with enhanced competence of touchscreen. The use of soft-keyboard requires different characteristics compared to traditional hard-keyboard like QWERTY keyboard: no standard character layout, one finger entry, and cognitive processing time. In this study, therefore, the optimal soft-keyboard layout for one finger text entry in touchscreen environment was investigated among 6 keyboard layouts which were developed based on traditional characteristic of Korean text and the usage frequency of both vowels and consonants. As a result, the interface with Korean text invention order like 'ㄱㄴㄷㄹ' or 'ㅏㅑㅓㅕㅕ' was found to be better than the interface with usage frequency-based arrangement. Especially the vowels were most efficient when separated into two parts; located at the right-hand side and at right below the consonants. In conclusion, the keyboard layout with regard to the Korean text characteristic and the invention order was a more effective layout resulted from the minimum cognitive processing time.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2016

Pen-based interaction is universally available on smart devices and especially on Tablet PCs. Previous studies compared various input methods like fingers, a mouse or a stylus pen on PCs or on a touchscreen based devices such as smart phones. At the same time, various soft keyboard applications are being developed on application stores of smart devices. However, these previous studies did not suggest which one is a suitable keyboard application for Tablet PCs when users perform a certain interaction as input type. In this study, we compared two types of input methods (finger and pen) and three types of soft keyboard applications (QWERTY, Gesture and Swype) in a Tablet PC using performance measurements (accuracy and input speed) and discussed what types of applications showed better performance with each interaction on tablet PC. From these results, recommendations for the keyboard types depending on the input methods on tablet PCs were developed.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2015

PURPOSE: People with physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy usually experience obstacles when interacting with computer through conventional keyboard because of their motor disabilities. The purpose of this study is empirically compare of text entry(alphabet and word) speed and accuracy using the three different keyboard type on four students(male 2 and female 2) with cerebral palsy. METHODS: This research design used a replicated single-case experimental approach to compare the individual performance. An alternating treatments design was used to examine the effectiveness of standard QWERTY keyboard and alternative keyboard(mini and big keyboard) on computer access for students with cerebral palsy. To avoid changes in posture that influence a keyboard character entry training and evaluation was carried out using his sitting in a wheelchair. Compass software program used in this study as an assessment tool to measure speed and accuracy when performance of text entry(alphabet and word). This was repeated until the stable status of reaction time. RESULTS: As a result, the alternative keyboard seems to be the most effective device for students with cerebral palsy to perform text entry. But various factors such as peculiarity of motor disabilities, experience and preferences of the user are heavily related. CONCLUSION: Thus, we must perform the objective and systematic assessment for computer access and if sustained training is accomplished, it could to improve speed and accuracy of text entry(alphabet and word).