VoiceDraw: A hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments

ASSETS'07: Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 27-34

  Harada, Susumu ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Landay, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer art; Continuous input; Drawing; Motor impairments; Painting; Speech recognition; Voice based user interfaces

Indexed keywords

DRAWING (GRAPHICS); HANDICAPPED PERSONS; OPTIMIZATION; PAINTING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER ART; CONTINUOUS INPUT; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; VOICE BASED USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 42149163528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1296843.1296850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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