10 Inventions on Key Guides and Keyboard Templates
Human-Computer Interaction
2013-10-14 v1
Abstract
A keyboard has many function keys and each function key can have multiple functions when used with control, shift and alt keys, it is difficult for a user to remember the functionality of the function keys. We need a mechanism to indicate the operations assigned to each function key for different software programs. A keyboard guide or template is used for this purpose. This article illustrates 10 inventions on keyboard key guide and function key templates selected from US patent database. Various mechanisms of keyboard templates have been proposed, including static, dynamic, manual, mechanical, onscreen display and others.
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@article{arxiv.1310.3165,
title = {10 Inventions on Key Guides and Keyboard Templates},
author = {Umakant Mishra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3165},
year = {2013}
}
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Published in TRIZsite Journal, June 2005, also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=932276