The metropolis keyboard - an exploration of quantitative techniques for virtual keyboard design

Text entry user interfaces have been a bottleneck of nontraditional computing devices. One of the promising methods is the virtual keyboard on touch screens. Various layouts have been manually designed to replace the dominant QWERTY layout. This paper presents two computerized quantitative design techniques to search for the optimal virtual keyboard. The first technique simulated the dynamics of a keyboard with “digraph springs” between

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Shumin Zhai, Michael A. Hunter, Barton A. Smith
• Keywords: Nontraditional Computing Devices, Optimal Virtual Keyboard, Software Engineering, UIST 2000, Virtual Keyboard