Quasi-Qwerty soft keyboard optimization

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 283-286

  Bi, Xiaojun ^a   Smith, Barton A ^b   Zhai, Shumin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

optimization; qwerty; soft keyboard; touch screens

Indexed keywords

MOTOR MOVEMENTS; NOVICE USER; ONE STEP; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; SEARCHING TIME; SOFT KEYBOARD; TOUCH SCREEN; VISUAL SEARCH;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77954015812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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