The design and evaluation of a high-performance soft keyboard

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 25-31

  Scott MacKenzie, I ^a   Zhang, Shawn X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digraph probabilities; Fitts' law; Linguistic models; Mobile systems; Pen input; Soft keyboards; Stylus input

Indexed keywords

FITTS' LAW; LINGUISTIC MODELS; MOBILE SYSTEMS; PEN INPUT; SOFT KEYBOARD; STYLUS INPUTS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LIGHT PENS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

SOFT KEYBOARDS; STYLUS INPUT;

EID: 0032668772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.302983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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