An evaluation of brailletouch: Mobile touchscreen text entry for the visually impaired

MobileHCI'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 317-326

  Southern, Caleb ^a   Clawson, James ^a   Frey, Brian ^b   Abowd, Gregory D ^a   Romero, Mario ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blindness; Chording; Gestures; Mobile devices; Multi touch interaction; Text entry; Touchscreens

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; CHORDING; GESTURES; MULTI-TOUCH INTERACTIONS; TEXT ENTRY;

COMPUTER KEYBOARD SUBSTITUTES (HANDICAPPED AID); ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE DEVICES; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

TOUCH SCREENS;

EID: 84867709750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2371574.2371623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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