GADGET: A toolkit for optimization-based approaches to interface and display generation

UIST: Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Softaware and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 125-134

  Fogarty, James ^a   Hudson, Scott E ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Display generation; Layout algorithms; Numerical optimization; Perceptually optimized displays; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY GENERATION; LAYOUT ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION; PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMIZED DISPLAYS; TOOLKITS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 12844286624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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