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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2020.24.11.1457

A Mathematical Analysis of Automatic Balanced Placement of Icons in A Smartphone Launcher  

Son, Kyung A (UNIST Innovative Education Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST))
Eun, Seongbae (Dept. of Information and Communication Eng., Hannam University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.24, no.11, 2020 , pp. 1457-1462 More about this Journal
Abstract
There are dozens of applications on the smartphone. The service application that manages the loading, deletion, and deployment of these applications is called a smartphone launcher, and various launchers are used. Some of the existing launchers provide a function to automatically place icons by analyzing user application usage patterns. In this paper, we present a method of automatically arranging icons so that the icons are balanced on the smartphone screen. The usefulness of our method is illustrated by some exaples. In this case, it is proved that in an m × n screen layout with a height of m and a width of n, if n is an odd number, the entire screen can always be arranged in a balanced manner regardless of the n value by mathematical induction method.
Keywords
Smartphone; launcher; Icon arrangement; $m{\times}n$ screen layout; Mathematical analysis;
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