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Artificial Ants for the Optimization of Virtual Keyboard Arrangement for Disabled People

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Artificial Evolution (EA 2007)

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Many physically impaired people can meet difficulties when using a computer and particularly with the keyboard. Often, a virtual keyboard can improve the usability of the computer system by handicapped people and can be adapted to their disabilities. From a combinatorial point of view, artificial ants have been studied to improve classical keyboard arrangements. This paper present how this method can fit the first problem and then become a tool to build new “tailor-made” keyboards. Then, the artificial ants meta-heuristic can be used as often as needed as an optimizer that take into account user’s activities of writing.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’, Université de Tours, 64 avenue Jean Portalis, 37200, Tours, France

    Sonia Colas, Nicolas Monmarché, Pierre Gaucher & Mohamed Slimane

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Colas, S., Monmarché, N., Gaucher, P., Slimane, M. (2008). Artificial Ants for the Optimization of Virtual Keyboard Arrangement for Disabled People. In: Monmarché, N., Talbi, EG., Collet, P., Schoenauer, M., Lutton, E. (eds) Artificial Evolution. EA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79305-2_8

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