• DocumentCode
    239921
  • Title

    Information theoretic design of space-constrained touch-based user interfaces

  • Author

    Aarabi, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    4-7 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a simple rule-of-thumb for creating space-constrained touch-based user interfaces (such as for a touchscreen mobile device). By looking at user interfaces as communication channels, we obtain the rule that the size of any UI element should be proportional to the square root of the probability of selection by an expert user. This relation is then used to obtain a metric for the clarity of a user interface by measuring the Interface Entropy of the system.
  • Keywords
    entropy; probability; user interfaces; UI element; communication channels; information theoretic design; interface entropy; selection probability; space-constrained touch-based user interfaces; touchscreen mobile device; Communication channels; Entropy; Equations; Mathematical model; Mobile communication; User interfaces; communication channel; entropy; information theory; user interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    0840-7789
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3099-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2014.6900939
  • Filename
    6900939
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=239921