We participated in a national-scale effort at redesigning and standardizing the special-character layout of AZERTY with the aid of combinatorial optimization. There are competing views on what makes a good keyboard layout: familiarity or user performance, expanded character sets vs. discoverability, and support for everyday language vs. programming vs. regional dialects.
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Aalto University, Finland
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Aalto University, Finland and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France
Aalto University, Finland
