DigiTaps: Eyes-free number entry on touchscreens with minimal audio feedback

UIST 2013 - Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 85-90

  Azenkot, Shiri ^a   Bennett, Cynthia L ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Eyes free text entry; Mobile devices; Touchscreen

Indexed keywords

AUDIO FEEDBACKS; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AVERAGE RATE; BLIND; ERROR RATE; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; TEXT ENTRY; TOUCHSCREEN;

MOBILE DEVICES; SEMANTICS; TOUCH SCREENS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84887601224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2501988.2502056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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