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UI4ALL 2002: Universal Access Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience pp 425–441Cite as

Augmentative and Alternative Communication: The Future of Text on the Move

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The current methods available for text entry on small mobile devices suffer from poor performance which presents a potential barrier to acceptance and growth. Our analysis of mobile text entry indicates that the likely solution lies in aggressive use of language technology which is beyond the capabilities of current mobile devices. We argue that research in augmentative and alternative communication is highly relevant to the mobile text entry problem and offers the opportunity to research solutions that will be possible on future generations of mobile devices. Fewer input buttons, Natural Language Prosessing (NLP) and multimodal inputs are techniques applied in our design.

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    Anders Sewerin Johansen & John Paulin Hansen

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    Noëlle Carbonell

  2. Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Science & Technology Park of Crete, Heraklion, 71110, Crete, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

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Johansen, A.S., Hansen, J.P. (2003). Augmentative and Alternative Communication: The Future of Text on the Move. In: Carbonell, N., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience. UI4ALL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36572-9_33

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