Generating Text from Compressed Input: An Intelligent Interface for People with Severe Motor Impairments

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 68-78

  Demasco, Patrick W ^a   McCoy, Kathleen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

processing; text

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE;

MINSPEAK; PHYSICAL INTERFACE; SEMANTIC PASER; VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 0026858940     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/129875.129881     Document Type: Article

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