• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.52-60
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• 2009

The North and South Koreas have different standards for computer keyboard designs, though both are two sets type keyboards. We expect that the unified design will be three sets type as the third standard. Korean keyboards of three sets type are classified as 3 modes in this paper, such as limited models, medium models, and extended models. Based on design principles of three sets type, 27, 29, 30, 36, and 38 keys models for a unified standard are suggested.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.79-88
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• 2007

As the mobile computers such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or Smart Phone has been widespread in our daily life, the demand of an extensive data input will gradually be increased. Consequently, many alternative soft keyboards have been proposed to satisfy this requirement. However none of them can provide an absolute solutions for that, the segregated guideline for keyboard arrangement and usage still cause much confusion to the user. Therefore, an integrated guideline is seriously required. In order to come up with the integrated guideline for Korean Soft keyboard GUI, the questionnaire and the experimental test compared with five soft keyboards were conducted in this study. As a result this paper presents five guidelines for improving an input speed of soft keyboard on the mobile computing; following familiarity for effective screen use, using a single key rather than grouping key, considering position of prediction word, considering prompt feedback, finally, considering optimized keyboard size.