• 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.

• 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.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2006

상용화된 웨어러블 컴퓨팅용 문자입력장치 중 팔목에착용하는 키보드가 많은데 대부분 소형화를 위해 키 수를 줄이는 방식을 택하고 있다. 하지만 충분한 착용성 확보를 위해 키보드의 키 수를 대폭 줄일 경우 보통 문자당 키입력수(KSPC)가 증가하기 때문에 입력효율이 저하되고 학습을 위해 부가적인 노력이 요구되는 등 우수한 웨어러블 키보드를 개발하는데 있어 착용성과 사용성이 상충하는 문제상황에 직면하게 된다. 본 연구는 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해 키 간격을 줄여 극적으로 키보드를 소형화할 수 있는 방법을 탐색하였다. 일련의 실험을 통해 키 간격 7mm인 키보드의 경우 물리적 폼팩터차원에서 착용성과 사회적 수용성이 충분히 긍정적이고 문자입력속도가 3세션 평균 15.0WPM 정도의 가능성 있는 결과를 도출했다. 하지만 수동적인 촉각 피드백과 입력에 대한 충분한 시각적 피드백의 부재가 문자입력수행도를 저하시킨다는 실험참가자들의 지적에 따라 원키 키보드라는 개념을 제안하였다. 전통적인 키보드의 경우 하나의 키에 하나의 문자가 할당한다. 반면 원키 키보드의 경우는 $70mm{\times}35mm$ 사이즈의 단일 키 위에 10*5배열의 QWERTY 키보드 문자배열을 모두 표시하였다. 따라서 일반적인 키보드와는 달리 키 판에서 어떤 문자를 입력했는지 키 입력 순간 손가락의 위치를 센싱하여 해당 문자를 계산하도록 하였다. 원키 키보드에 대한 입력효율 평가를 통해 5세션 평균 18.9WPM의 입력속도와 6.7%에러율을 기록했으면 최고 24.5WPM을 기록했다. 실험결과를 통해 본 연구에서 제안한 원키 키보드는 웨어러블 컴퓨팅 환경에서 착용성, 사회적 수용성, 입력효율성, 학습용이성 등의 상충적 요소에 대한 적절한 절충점을 제시하는 가능성 있는 문자입력장치로 평가되었다.

• 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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.153.4-153
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• 2001

Skilled typists can type characters or wrds 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 four 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 ...

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.29-49
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• 2021

본 논문은 훈민정음의 창제 원리를 글자판의 설계에 적용한 훈민정음 글자판을 제안한다. 제안하는 글자판은 훈민정음의 자모 28글자를 자음 간에, 모음 간에, 그리고 자음과 모음 간에 서로 상관성을 가지도록 배열하였다. 즉, 자음 버튼들은 오음(五音)의 소리별로 같은 소리의 글자들을 그룹으로 묶어 배열하였고 모음 버튼들은 자음에 붙여 쓰는 위치에 따라 자음 영역의 아래쪽과 오른쪽에 배열한 것이다. 그동안 한글 글자판들은 주로 4행 3열의 12버튼 글자판들이 많이 사용되었는데 이 글자판들은 구조적으로 터치횟수나 이동거리에서 단점을 가진다. 최근에는 쿼티나 단모음 글자판과 같이 많은 자모 버튼을 가진 글자판들도 많이 사용되고 있다. 글자판에서 제공하는 글자 버튼의 개수가 많아지면 터치횟수가 줄어든다. 그리고 글자 버튼들이 서로 상관성을 가지도록 배열되면 이동거리가 작아진다. 실험 결과는 제안하는 글자판이 터치횟수와 이동거리와 입력시간의 모든 평가 요소에서 높은 효율을 나타냄을 보여준다.