Dynakey : Dynamic approach of Text Input for Phonetic orthographic scripts

Concept behind Dynakey


I conceived and designed it during my thesis for M.Des. at IDC. Project involved developing Devanagari keyboard, which is targeted at the novice, first-time users and kiosk users. The aim is that everyone who can read should be able to type. This new Devanagari keyboard can be learnt quickly, retained and fair speed can be achieved. In Indic script, vowel glyphs always follow immediately after one or more consonant to complete a letter. also this vowel-glyph(matra) is placed around the consonant unlike roman where each letter appends to other. Final solution has only consonant keys and pressing any key would turn neighborhood 6 keys into matras and can be picked with minimum finger travel thus reducing stress out of hunting and saving time. A functional prototype was developed and evaluation was conducted to compare concepts for their performance. The usability and learnability tests and benchmarked it against the prevailing standards, while the tests showed good rise in performance in the initial exposure but the ultimate speed it can reach is limited as the finger dynamics is suitable for single finger entry which is prevalent in novice.


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