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Artificial ants for the optimization of virtual keyboard arrangement for disabled people

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Many physically impaired people can meet difficulties whenusing a computer and particularly with the keyboard. Often, a virtualkeyboard can improve the usability of the computer system by handicappedpeople and can be adapted to their disabilities. From a combinatorialpoint of view, artificial ants have been studied to improve classicalkeyboard arrangements. This paper present how this method can fit thefirst problem and then become a tool to build new "tailor-made" keyboards.Then, the artificial ants meta-heuristic can be used as often asneeded as an optimizer that take into account user's activities of writing.

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EA'07: Proceedings of the Evolution artificielle, 8th international conference on Artificial evolution
October 2007
329 pages
ISBN:3540793046
  • Editors:
  • Nicolas Monmarché,
  • El-Ghazali Talbi,
  • Pierre Collet,
  • Marc Schoenauer,
  • Evelyne Lutton

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  • Conseil Régional du Centre
  • Ville de Tours
  • INRIA: Institut Natl de Recherche en Info et en Automatique
  • Université de Tours

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