• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.225-232
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• 2015

The smart watch is the most popular wearable computing device because it takes a form of wristwatch. Many smart watches have adopted the touch screen interface due to the limited size of display. This paper focuses on touch key size and spacing that affect the usability about the touch key of smart watch. The experiments were made for four touch key sizes (width${\times}$height; $5{\times}5$, $5{\times}7$, $7{\times}5$, $7{\times}7mm$) and nine touch key spacing (vertical${\times}$horizontal; $0{\times}0$, $0{\times}1$, $0{\times}3$, $1{\times}0$, $1{\times}1$, $1{\times}3$, $3{\times}0$, $3{\times}1$, $3{\times}3mm$). The completion time, error rate, control discomfort and identification discomfort were measured. The touch key size $7{\times}7$, $7{\times}5$ and the touch key spacing $3{\times}3$, $1{\times}3$ provided the best results in terms of the completion time and the control discomfort, while the square touch key ($7{\times}7$, $5{\times}5$) provided the best performance for the error rate measure. The result of this study can help ergonomically design the touch interface of the smart watch.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.30-40
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• 2011

In recent years, driver information systems (DIS's) became popular and the use of DIS's increased significantly. A majority of DIS's provides touch-screen interfaces because of intuitiveness of the interaction and the flexibility of interface design. In many cases, touch-screen interfaces are mainly manipulated by fingers. In this case, investigating the effect of touch-key sizes on usability is known to be one of the most important research issues, and lots of studies address the effect of touch-key size for mobile devices or kiosks. However, there is few study on DIS's. The importance of touch-key size study for DIS's should be emphasized because it is closely related to safety issues besides usability issues. In this study, we investigated the effect of touch-key sizes of DIS's while simulated driving (0, 50, and 100km/h) considering driving safety (lateral deviation, velocity deviation, total glance time, mean glance time, total time between glances, mean number of glances) and usability of DIS's (task completion time, error rate, subjective preference, NASA TLX) simultaneously. As a result, both of driving safety and usability of DIS's increased as driving speed decreased and touch-key size increased. However, there were no significant differences when touch-key size is larger than a certain level (in this study : 17.5mm).

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2012

This paper focuses on small touch key size and spacing that affect the usability of the smart phones. The experiments examined thirty-six different touch key designs, combinations of four touch key sizes (width (mm) ${\times}$height (mm); $4{\times}4$, $4{\times}7$, $7{\times}4$, and $7{\times}7$), and nine spacings (horizontal (mm)${\times}$vertical (mm); $0{\times}0$, $0{\times}1$, $0{\times}3$, $1{\times}0$, $1{\times}1$, $1{\times}3$, $3{\times}0$, $3{\times}1$, and $3{\times}3$). Forty participants volunteered in the experiment. The completion time, error rate, identification discomfort, and control discomfort were measured. The results revealed that the touch key sizes of $7{\times}7$ and $7{\times}4$ provide the best performance in terms of the error rate measure, while the touch key size of $7{\times}7$ provides the best results for other measures. In addition, touch key spacings of $1{\times}1$, $1{\times}3$ and $3{\times}1$ are regarded as the best for all the measures. The results of this study suggest a practical approach for the small touch key design for the smart phones.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.605-610
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• 2010

In order to design a touch interface for the elderly, human performance of input tasks on the touch screen was investigated by the laboratory experiment. Input times and input errors were measured in the experimental conditions that were changed according to age, key size, interkey space and input tool(finger or stylus pen). In the most of all experimental conditions, the task performance of the elderly was lower than that of the young. However, there were significantly different performance patterns between both groups. As the difficulty of task was getting higher, the task performance of the elderly was sharply decreased; pressing small key button by finger sharply increased input time and error rate, compared to that of the young. Therefore, the square key size suitable to the elderly may be over $8.0{\times}8.0mm$. While the interkey space did not influence to the input task performance of the young, the task performance of the elderly was influenced. The elderly showed big difference of task performance according to input tool. However, the young were less influenced by input tool.

• 산업공학
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.539-546
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• 2007

This study has been conducted on touch screen interface design for mobile devices. It was intended to measure user’s satisfaction on one-handed thumb input mobile devices. Recent studies proposed the optimal touch button size, but it is inappropriate for mobile devices. Therefore, this study was focused on four touch key factors-width, height, the horizontal and vertical distance between touch keys-as independent variables. The ANOVA results showed that the user satisfaction of four touch key factors was significantly affected by the thumb input. It also apparent that the interactions between four factors were significant. As a result, the horizontal and vertical distance as well as the width and height affected the satisfaction of users. In addition, this study suggested satisfaction models which represent the top 30%, 50%, 70% of user satisfaction measurement. The results of this study could be used to design touch keys that are able to enhance the usability on touch screen based mobile devices.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.465-475
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• 2024

Due to changes in the form factor of display panels and touch screen panels in various devices, capacitive touch systems have evolved to address various issues such as low power consumption, noise immunity, and small chip size. Furthermore, some devices have applications that use a stylus. Since the stylus operates similarly to a finger touch, it encounters similar issues. Recent research trends focus on addressing key issues such as noise, which is primarily caused by the self-capacitor formed between the display cathode and the touch screen panel. In this paper, Various research papers discussing methods to eliminate external noise will be reviewed. These advancements enhance noise immunity in touch systems, making it easier to use thinner and more flexible panels. These progress make touch technology more versatile and reliable in various applications.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2013

최근 대부분의 모바일 단말기는 LCD 터치 화면에 소프트 키보드를 장착한다. 그러나 소프트 키보드의 터치화면의 크기가 작기 때문에, 인접키가 실수로 눌러지고, 한 키를 여러 키 입력에 중복 사용함에 따라 사용자의 키 입력 오류가 많이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 텍스트를 입력하는 동안 적절한 어휘를 추천하여 키 입력 오류를 쉽게 수정하도록 돕는 알고리즘을 제안하고 MissLess 소프트 키보드를 구현한 내용에 대해 기술한다. 3개의 간단한 테스트 셋을 작성하여 MissLess 키보드의 추천 성능을 평가한 결과 다소 차이가 있지만 90%에 달하는 추천 성능을 얻었다. 그러나 추천 워드가 4개인 것을 고려하면 추천 성능을 해석할 필요가 있다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2017

This paper proposes a smart phone authentication method based on user's behavior and habit that is an authentication method against shoulder surfing attack and brute force attack. As smart phones evolve not only storage of personal data but also a key means of financial services, the importance of personal information security in smart phones is growing. When user authentication of smart phone, pattern authentication method is simple to use and memorize, but it is prone to leak and vulnerable to attack. Using the features of the smart phone pattern method of the user, the pressure applied when touching the touch pad with the finger, the size of the area touching the finger, and the time of completing the pattern are used as feature vectors and applied to user authentication security. First, a smart phone user models and stores three parameter values as prototypes for each section of the pattern. Then, when a new authentication request is made, the feature vector of the input pattern is obtained and compared with the stored model to decide whether to approve the access to the smart phone. The experimental results confirm that the proposed technique shows a robust authentication security using subjective data of smart phone user based on habits and behaviors.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2015

스마트폰이나 탭 컴퓨터 등과 같은 대부분의 모바일 기기는 LCD 스크린의 터치를 통해 사용자의 입력을 받는 소프트 키보드를 사용하고 있다. 모바일 기기의 LCD 패널은 크기가 작기 때문에, 가능하면 적은 수의 키를 사용하고, 입력이 효율적인 소프트 키보드를 개발하고자 하는 많은 노력들이 진행 중이다. 한글 키보드의 경우, 특별히, 키 조합이나 중복키로부터 키를 입력받아 한글 문자를 인식하는 한글 오토마타를 작성하는데 많은 시간과 노력이 들어가며 전문성을 필요로 한다. 본 논문은 일반 사용자들도 자신만의 한글 소프트 키보드를 쉽게 만들 수 있는 저작 도구를 설계하고 구현한 내용에 대해 소개한다. 본 저작 도구로 제작한 소프트 키보드는 바로 사용자의 단말기에 탑재하여 실행할 수 있다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.1167-1172
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• 2017

인터넷 이용과 정보활동의 주요 수단이었던 데스크탑 컴퓨터는 모빌리티와 단순화를 강조하는 스마트 기기에 의해 그 자리에서 밀려났다. 최근의 정보생산 및 소비 활동은 스마트 기기를 통하여 이루어지고 있으나 전통적 인 입력 수단인 키보드를 대체할만한 스마트 기기용 입력 수단이 없다. 스마트 기기의 터치스크린을 이용한 가상 키보드는 작은 크기로 인해 입력 오타가 높은 비율로 발생한다. 이에 본 연구에서 우리는 기존의 가상 키보드의 입력 오류를 최소화 할 수 있는 가변 가상 키보드를 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 기존의 가상 키보드와 키의 배열에 차이는 없으나 사용자의 입력 오류의 발생 위치와 압력 정도의 누적 데이터에 따라 판단하여 가상 키보드의 각 키의 크기를 조정함으로써 사용자의 입력 오류를 최소화시킨다.