• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.237-250
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• 2010

The present paper focuses on the comparison of user experience of mobile phone keypad and touchpad. Mobile phone has recently adopted a touchpad keyboard style and it gives users advantages and disadvantages as well. This paper examined usability, usefulness, affect and attitude of those two keyboard styles and disclosed interesting outcomes. First, keypad is better than touchpad in usefulness and usability. Second, touchpad is better than keypad in affect. Finally, touchpad is better than keypad in attitude. Overall, although touchapd is evaluated as worse keyboard in usability and usefulness, test subjects favored touchpad keyboard because it is more emotional and affective. It implies new digital device including mobile phone has to get more affective appeal to the young users and emotion will be a key point in digital consumption.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2012

스마트 폰에서는 문서작성, 채팅, 웹 검색 등의 다양한 기능들이 제공되고 있으며, 이에 따라 스마트폰에서 글자를 입력하는데 사용하는 글자판의 중요성이 더욱 부각되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 스마트폰 영어 글자판에서는 글자들을 단순히 글자 순서대로 배치하고 있기 때문에 입력의 효율성이 매우 떨어진다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영어 글자의 빈도수 정보와 바이그램을 사용하여 글자를 배치한 개선된 영어 글자판을 설계하였다. 또한 성능평가를 통해 제안하는 자판의 성능을 기존의 자판과 비교하여 제안하는 자판의 성능이 더 우수함을 보였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.105-120
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• 2004

With the new technology and the popularization of mobile phone. the functions and designs of mobile phone have been varied rapidly. However. based on the user's level of familiarity on mobile phone function and knowledge of information technology. the using behaviors of mobile phone. especially between the young users who are well acquainted with the latest function and technology and the over middle-aged users who are relatively not. would be quite different. A survey was conducted to investigate the various using behaviors of mobile phone in different age groups. The total number of six hundred and sixty-seven people from age seventeen to sixty participated in this study. The participants were divided into young group (age between 17 to 29) and the over middle-aged group (age between 40 to 60) to compare the difference group considered design. price. and function of the mobile phone as three important factors. on the other hand. the over middle-aged group considered quality of communication. price and ease of use as three important factors. All the respondents of the young group know how to use the text messaging function. however for the over middle-aged group. 40% of the respondents knows how to use the text messaging function. The over middle-aged group seemed mainly use the mobile phone for voice communication. however the young group had a tendency to communicate each other with short text message rather than through voice conversation. Twenty percentage of young group responded that they had an experience of pain or discomfort at the thumb. the thenar eminence area. or carpus area during pushing the mobile phone keypad. The excessive frequent use of keypad may cause the risk of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The results of this study could provide important information to understand the way of using mobile phone in different age groups. and also could be used to design and market the mobile phone.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.34-38
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• 2017

Deformation frequently occurring in injection molded products is a phenomenon displayed due to uneven shrinkage distribution and orientation of the whole molded product. Shrinkage deformation is a very serious problem because it causes deformation of the molded article and shortens the performance of the product. In this paper, we are focusing on the warpage of keypad in mobile phone. In other words, we focused on minimizing keypad deformation. In the study, the Taguchi method was applied to find the injection molding conditions that minimize the deformation of the keypad. In the case of this keypad, the main factors influencing the shrinkage deformation were predicted as the melting temperature, coolant temperature and cooling time. In addition, the optimum molding conditions were obtained and the shrinkage strain was minimized. Experiments for the Taguchi method and verification of optimal molding conditions were performed using an injection molding analysis program.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2009

While driving, the manual use of a mobile phone is heavily restricted due to the interference with the primary driving task. An alternative would be the use of speech interface. The current study aims to provide a guideline to implementation of a speech interface to the mobile phone. To do so, an expert evaluation was made and it revealed that a speech interface requires less workload, less performance degradation of the driving task than that of the keypad interface. To make speech interfaces more usable, new improvements are suggested. Subjective workload can be reduced and user satisfaction can be improved without degrading the primary task performance, for instance, by letting the user interrupt the speech of the phone, eliminating the repetitive words, letting the user know clearly what makes an error, providing a way to go back to the previous state, reducing the usage of keypad buttons and reducing the amount of the information on the screen.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2009

최근 모바일 게임은 모바일폰의 하드웨어적 성능향상과 통신망 속도증가로 폭넓은 장르와 다양한 형태로 개발되고 있다. 그러나 모바일 게임은 단말기의 키패드 조작만을 사용해 게임을 플레이해야 하기 때문에 개발하고자 하는 게임 소재의 한계성을 보여준다. 본 연구에서는 모바일폰의 물리적 장치를 게임 인터페이스로 활용하기 위해 'Flip On/Off 인터페이스'와 'Microphone 인터페이스'를 개발하였다. 기존 모바일게임의 키패드방식에 비해 'Flip On/Off 인터페이스'와 'Microphone 인터페이스'는 모바일폰 자체의 하드웨어를 활용하여 추가로 장치를 구매할 필요가 없고 인터페이스 응답 대기시간이 짧아 게임의 진행이 원활하다는 장점이 있다. 또한 개발된 인터페이스를 상용화 될 게임에 적용하여 테스트해 봄으로써 상용화 검수 기준 모바일폰 상에서도 힙 메모리 부족현상 없이 동작의 원활함을 확인하여 그 활용성을 확인하였다. 또한 사용성 평가를 시행한 결과 접근성, 신뢰성, 심미성이 높게 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 키패드에 한정되어 있는 모바일 게임의 인터페이스 환경을 다양화 할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance and subjective satisfaction of mobile phone's interface elements considering the elderly users. First, mobile phone's interface elements were outlined recent foreign and domestic studies. Then, final three mobile phone's interface elements were determined by expert rating, AHP analysis, and questionnaire analysis. Objective and subjective measures were then used to determine the effects of several specific design parameters and aging differences on performance of mobile phones. In this experiment, 38 subjects and 4 independent variables were used to measure task completion time and user's subjective satisfaction. The statistical analyses indicated significant aging differences between older people and younger people in terms of keypad type and bell sound level in performance. Significant aging differences were also found for user subjective satisfaction. It is suggested that some major results from this study be used to develop mobile phone design guidelines that are more usable and accessible for most users, particularly for older users.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.814-820
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• 2009

일반 12-키 휴대폰 키패드의 알파벳 배치 방식은 한두 가지로 통일되어 있다. 대개 하나의 키에 여러 개의 알파벳을 순서가 있게 배치한다. 영문을 입력할 때 우리나라를 포함한 비영어권 국가에서는 대부분 멀티탭(multi-tap) 방식을 사용하는데, 이 멀티탭 방식에서는 같은 키를 반복해서 눌러야 다음 알파벳을 입력할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 멀티탭 방식으로 다양한 상황의 영문 데이터를 입력할 때 필요한 키 누름 횟수를 최소화하는 키패드를 디자인한다. 제안한 유전 알고리즘을 이용해 최적의 키패드를 디자인할 수 있었다. 키의 개수는 최소 8개에서 최대 12개까지를 사용하며 알파벳 순서를 유지한 것과 그렇지 않은 키패드 디자인에 대해 다양하게 실험하였고, 결과적으로 모든 경우에 개선된 키패드 디자인을 도출 해냈다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2007

A few people are frequently using Korean text entry function in the mobile phone. To make matters worse, too many kinds of Korean text entry methods exist in the market, compelling mobile phone users to learn how to input texts all over again, whenever they purchase a new mobile phone. The purpose of this study is to propose a universal design of Korean text entry method for mobile phones. Several experiments and several questionnaire surveys were conducted in order to induce design factors for the universal design. Participants were mobile phone users with the diverse levels of text entry expertise and with the diverse ages. The results of this investigation were identical, irrespective of participants' age and expertise. The efficiency of the text entry method was not more important factor than memorability. The layout of vowels to keypad was preferred to map just 3 strokes to the 3 buttons so that users can make for themselves vowels that they want to input. The preference on the consonants layout was different according to investigation methods. According to the survey, it was preferred that consonants were arranged by alphabet order. However, the result of text entry speed measurement was that the arrangement by alphabet order was not superior to the typical arrangement. Such results may be used to design mobile phones for diverse users.

• 감성과학
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.575-588
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 종래의 키패드 조작방식에 익숙해져 있던 모바일 폰의 사용자가 터치스크린 모바일 폰으로 기종변경을 할 경우 경험하게 되는 오조작의 멘탈모델을 유형별로 고찰하고, 이러한 오조작을 수정하여 새로운 멘탈모델로 변용하여가는 사용자의 사고과정의 특징을 밝히고자 하였다. 아울러 터치스크린 모바일 폰의 조작과 관련된 멘탈모델을 용이하게 생성하기 위하여 고려되어야 할 사용성 개선사항을 검토하였다. 이를 위해 터치스크린 모바일 폰의 기능 가운데서 사용 빈도가 높은 상위 7개의 기능에 대한 실험과제를 설정하여 비디오 관찰실험을 실시한 후 주관평가와 인터뷰조사를 병행하였다. 실험결과 키패드 조작방식에 익숙해져 있던 피험자들은 오조작 발생 시 멘탈모델을 수정하기 위하여 탭(Tap), 더블 탭(Double Tap) 등 컴퓨터 운영시스템(윈도우)이나 웹 브라우저 상의 내비게이션과 관련된 조작지식을 이용하려는 경향을 보였다. 또한 주관평가 데이터와 비디오 관찰실험 데이터를 비교 분석한 결과 터치스크린 모바일 폰의 오조작은 모바일 폰 구성요소 가운데서 '정보의 피드백', '내비게이션'과 관련된 영역에서 주로 발생하고 있는 것으로 나타났다.