Improvements to keyboard optimization with integer programming

UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 621-626

  Karrenbauer, Andreas ^a   Oulasvirta, Antti ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Integer programming; Keyboard layouts; Random search methods; User interface optimization

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; USER INTERFACES;

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; BLACK BOXES; KEYBOARD LAYOUT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; QUALITY OF RESULTS; RANDOM SEARCH APPROACH; RANDOM SEARCH METHOD; RANDOM SEARCHES;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84912019680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2642918.2647382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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