QWERTH: An optimized semi-ambiguous keyboard design

MobileHCI'12 - Companion Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-28

  Dunlop, Mark D ^a   Durga, Naveen ^b   Motaparti, Sunil ^b   Dona, Prima ^b   Medapuram, Varun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b KeyPoint Technologies Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Keyboard layouts; Semi ambiguous entry; Text entry

Indexed keywords

KEYBOARD DESIGN; KEYBOARD LAYOUT; PREDICTION PROBLEM; SEMI-AMBIGUOUS ENTRY; STUDY PLANS; TEXT ENTRY; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE DEVICES;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

EID: 84867730299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2371664.2371671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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