Design of finger-contact device reducing the amount of mouse pointer operation and typing
Sogo Ito, Satoshi Miura · 2022 61st Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) · 2022
Mouse cursor operation and keyboard typing have the important roles in various situations such as document creation. Therefore, it is necessary to research and develop devices to improve the efficiency of mouse cursor and key typing operation. There are many research and developments about devices. However, it is difficult to increase the typing speed due to the flat keyboard layout like a standard keyboard. In addition, there are many devices that require remembering of keyboard layouts. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to design of finger-contact device that reduce the amount of finger movement and do not require re-learning of keyboard layouts. The device can type and operate a mouse cursor. I designed a device using a computer-aided design (CAD) and built it with 3D printing. Then, I optimized the identification of key typing with a machine learning algorithm. As for the identification accuracy, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) was the highest result.