Positional mapping Myanmar text input scheme for mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • Ye Kyaw Thu;Yoshiyori Urano

  • Affiliations:
  • Waseda University, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan;Waseda University, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Current Myanmar PC keyboards or key mappings are very difficult to learn for novice users, and there is no efficient key mapping for mobile device keypads. In this paper, we introduce a new idea of key mapping (Positional Mapping) for phonetic scripts such as Myanmar language. Positional Mapping is a key mapping idea, based on Myanmar language characters writing positions, for small computing devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and electronic dictionaries etc. Our approach has made key mapping for Myanmar language very simple and easier to memorize. The results of first evaluation show that first time users have no problem with this key mapping and they can type Myanmar text with appropriate typing speed. Positional Mapping can be extended to other phonetic scripts such as Khmer, Thai, Indic and Lao etc.