Interlaced QWERTY - Accommodating ease of visual search and input flexibility in shape writing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 593-596

  Zhai, Shumin ^a   Kristensson, Per Ola ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Keyboard; Mobile; Shape writing; Text input; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE CONTROLS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

KEYBOARD; MOBILE; SHAPE WRITING; TEXT INPUT; VISUAL SEARCH;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 57649223968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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