Maximizing the guessability of symbolic input

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1869-1872

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Aung, Htet Htet ^a   Rothrock, Brandon ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Command line; Commands; EdgeWrite; Gestures; Guessability; Icons; Immediate usability; Keywords; Labels; Proposals; Referents; Symbols; Text entry; Unistrokes

Indexed keywords

COMMAND-LINE; COMMANDS; EDGEWRITE; GESTURES; GUESSABILITY; ICONS; IMMEDIATE USABILITY; KEYWORDS; PROPOSALS; REFERENTS; TEXT ENTRY; UNISTROKES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); HUMAN ENGINEERING; LABELS;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 84869147623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1057043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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