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Optimized and hygienic touch screen keyboard for large letter set languages

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Masakazu Iwatate,

Masayuki Asahara,

Yuji Matsumoto,

Wajeeha KhalilAuthors Info & Claims

ICUIMC '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

Article No.: 63, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2448556.2448619

Published: 17 January 2013 Publication History

Abstract

1) Does QWERTY type keyboard provide optimum performance for every language? 2) Is it suitable for touch-screen devices? In this paper we tried to find out answers to these questions. QWERTY keyboard remained the most common mode of input for a long time. The recent growth of touch screen devices is forcing changes in modern GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). They stipulate designing new input systems with higher performance, more user friendliness and better usability etc. The common QWERTY type keyboards lack these qualities when deployed on smaller touch screen devices such as smart phones, e-readers, tablet PCs and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) etc.

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Index Terms

Optimized and hygienic touch screen keyboard for large letter set languages
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Baseer FJaafar JAziz IHabib A(2020)Refined Urdu Lexicon Development K-Means Clustering Based Computational Model Using Colloquial Romanized Urdu Dataset2020 International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI)10.1109/ICCI51257.2020.9247814(57-62)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI51257.2020.9247814
Baseer FHabib AAshraf J(2016)Romanized urdu Corpus development (RUCD) model: Edit-distance based most frequent unique unigram extraction approach using real-time interactive dataset2016 Sixth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH)10.1109/INTECH.2016.7845117(513-518)Online publication date: Aug-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/INTECH.2016.7845117

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