Multidimensional Pareto optimization of touchscreen keyboards for speed, familiarity and improved spell checking

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2669-2678

  Dunlop, Mark D ^a   Levine, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Keyboard design; Keyboard optimization; Touch screen

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METRICS; FITTS' LAW; KEYBOARD DESIGN; KEYBOARD LAYOUT; NASA-TLX; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARETO FRONT; PARETO OPTIMIZATION; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SPELL-CHECKING; TEXT ENTRY; TOUCH-SCREEN KEYBOARDS; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TYPING SPEED; USER TESTS;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NASA; TOUCH SCREENS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84862108576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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