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

Authors:
Sonia Colas;Nicolas Monmarché;Pierre Gaucher;Mohamed Slimane
Affiliations:
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours, Tours, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours, Tours, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours, Tours, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours, Tours, France
Venue:
EA'07 Proceedings of the Evolution artificielle, 8th international conference on Artificial evolution
Year:
2007

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Abstract

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.