Performance models for automatic evaluation of virtual scanning keyboards

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 510-519

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

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Augmentative communication; Fitts' digraph model; Scanning and access switches; Virtual keyboards

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION; AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; AUTOMATIC EVALUATIONS; FITTS' DIGRAPH MODEL; MODEL PREDICTIONS; PERFORMANCE MODELS; VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS; VIRTUAL SCANNING;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER MODEL; EVALUATION; KEYBOARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 55749114057     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2008.2003377     Document Type: Article

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