TrueKeys: Identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 349-352

  Kane, Shaun K ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a   Harniss, Mark ^b   Johnson, Kurt L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer access; Error correction; Minimum string distance; Motor impairments; Spell checking; Typing errors

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOTORS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER ACCESS; MINIMUM STRING DISTANCE; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; SPELL CHECKING; TYPING ERRORS;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 57349188525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378773.1378827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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