Multilingual touchscreen keyboard design and optimization

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 352-382

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

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ISSUES; FITTS'S LAW; KEYBOARD DESIGN; LONG LASTING; MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; TEXT INPUT; TOUCH-SCREEN KEYBOARDS; TRAVEL DISTANCE; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; TOUCH SCREENS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84865638315     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370024.2012.678241     Document Type: Article

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