Integrated text entry from power wheelchairs

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-203

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

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b AT Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer access; EdgeWrite; Gestures; Joystick; On screen keyboard; Pebbles; Power wheelchair; Text entry; Text input; Touchpad; Unistrokes; WiVik

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER MONITORS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPUTER ACCESS; GESTURES; JOYSTICK; ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD; PEBBLES; POWER WHEELCHAIR; TEXT ENTRY; TEXT INPUTS; TOUCHPAD; UNISTROKES;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 27944500631     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290512331321729     Document Type: Article

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