TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal keyboard design by using particle swarm optimization
AU - Soto, Ricardo
AU - Crawford, Broderick
AU - Toro, José
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The use of appropriate keyboards clearly improves the typing activity, making the task faster and the workstation more comfortable. On the contrary, intensive use of inappropriate/unergonomic keyboards may lead to musculoskeletal injuries. During the last years the design of optimal keyboards as appeared as an interesting problem from UI design. The idea is to arrange the letters on a keyboard according to a given ergonomic criteria in order to maximize typing speed, and reduce fatigue as well as typing errors. In this paper, we focus on the letter assignment problem, whose goal is to minimize the cost of the keyboard which is computed according to the Fitts law and the movement time among keys. In particular, we employ particle swarm optimization (PSO), which is one of the pioneers metaheuristics that has been largely used to solve different problems from multiple application domains.
AB - The use of appropriate keyboards clearly improves the typing activity, making the task faster and the workstation more comfortable. On the contrary, intensive use of inappropriate/unergonomic keyboards may lead to musculoskeletal injuries. During the last years the design of optimal keyboards as appeared as an interesting problem from UI design. The idea is to arrange the letters on a keyboard according to a given ergonomic criteria in order to maximize typing speed, and reduce fatigue as well as typing errors. In this paper, we focus on the letter assignment problem, whose goal is to minimize the cost of the keyboard which is computed according to the Fitts law and the movement time among keys. In particular, we employ particle swarm optimization (PSO), which is one of the pioneers metaheuristics that has been largely used to solve different problems from multiple application domains.
KW - Keyboard optimization
KW - Letter assignment problem
KW - Metaheuristics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061524588&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92270-6_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92270-6_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061524588
SN - 9783319922690
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 281
EP - 284
BT - HCI International 2018 – Posters’ Extended Abstracts - 20th International Conference, HCI International 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 20th International Conference on HCI, HCI International 2018
Y2 - 15 July 2018 through 20 July 2018
ER -