ThaiFlick
Nattachai Saejiem, Songsak Channarukul · 2020
Composing messages with virtual keyboard is a challenging task especially for Thai messages. There are too many Thai characters to fit a mobile keyboard. Moreover, screens of smartphones are so small that those having big fingers frequently tap on undesired keys. This paper introduces a Thai keyboard layout that helps improve typing performance on smartphones. It adopts Japanese Flicked layout along with intuitive key arrangement based on character arrangement in Thai words. In addition, it provides word suggestion based on the sound of the entered characters. Users can just type characters having the same sound of the desired alphabet without correctly typing all required characters. Our experiments show that ThaiFlick outperforms the existing Ketmanee layout on mobile devices.