Computational modeling of user errors for the design of virtual scanning keyboards

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 400-409

  Bhattacharya, Samit ^a   Basu, Anupam ^a   Samanta, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

ErrorProneness; Focus distance; Scanning and access switches; Selection error; Timing error; Virtual keyboards

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION AIDS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DESIGN METHODS; DISABLED USERS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERRORPRONENESS; FOCUS DISTANCE; MODEL-BASED APPROACHES; MODEL-BASED DESIGNS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SCANNING AND ACCESS SWITCHES; SELECTION ERROR; TESTING PROTOTYPES; TIMING ERROR; USER MODELLING; USER TESTING; VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS; VIRTUAL SCANNING;

SCANNING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DISABLED PERSONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 49649083600     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2008.925073     Document Type: Article

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