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Efficient model of Korean graphemes based on a smartphone keyboard

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Smartphones are becoming more advanced, and the use of touch input is increasing. Therefore, various keyboards can be implemented in smartphones. Unlike the button input method, the touch input method can have non-fixed keys that can be freely arranged. Many users are thus interested in the touch input method. In this paper, we propose a Korean grapheme model called ‘Auto Toggle’ by using auto switching between consonants and vowels of Hangul. Also, Auto Toggle is designed and implemented based on the Android platform. Finally, we describe the results of a performance evaluation for the number of buttons pushed for each single syllable of Hangul compared with conventional methods. Additionally, Auto Toggle results in a rapid improvement on typing speed with respect to sentence generation.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012-0008296).

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  1. Department of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Young-Sik Jeong

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Tae-Kyu Yeom, Ji Soo Park & Jong Hyuk Park

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Jeong, YS., Yeom, TK., Park, J.S. et al. Efficient model of Korean graphemes based on a smartphone keyboard. Electron Commer Res 13, 357–377 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-013-9118-z

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