Text entry from power wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for joysticks and touchpads

ASSETS 2004 - The Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 110-117

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a   Aung, Htet Htet ^a   LoPresti, Edmund F ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b AT Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer access; EdgeWrite; Gestures; Joystick; Pebbles; Power wheelchair; Text entry; Text input; Touchpad; Unistrokes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; ERRORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); PROCESS CONTROL; STUDENTS; WHEELCHAIRS;

COMPUTER ACCESS; EDGEWRITE; GESTURES; JOYSTICKS; PEBBLES; POWER WHEELCHAIRS; TEXT ENTRY; TEXT INPUT; UNISTROKES;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 15544370000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028630.1028650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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