The Research and Design of More Legible and Readable Key Legends for school children while operating Chinese computer keyboard

For school children users, mostly less skilled in keying or unfamiliar with the keyboard, most key legends are important since a major proportion of the time is spent looking at the keyboard. The key legends need therefore to be as explicit and easy to understand as possible. In the initial experiment, we sampled twenty-one school children users to simulate the situation of computer keyboard operation. All subjects were requested to view the different designed key legends on the key-tops. We tried to find out the best Chinese character attributes including the style, shape, stroke width, size, and the location relationship on the computer key-tops. In the following experiments, we then adopted the well-known Chong-Je Keying words and tried the illegible Chinese keying words for the reference of related product designers.