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Text Entry by Rotary Head Movements

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Image Processing and Communications Challenges 10 (IP&C 2018)

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Head movements are one of several possibilities to operate electronic equipments or computers by physically challenged people. A camera mouse where users control the on-screen pointer through the head movements is now a standard which has many implementations. The process of typing, however, in such interfaces still remains a challenge. In this paper, a gesture-based technique is adopted for touchless typing with head movements. To type a character a rotary head movement is employed. The changes in the direction pattern are used for accessing consecutive characters. Quick access to individual letters, elimination of the pressing (or its simulation) and no need for precision during typing are the main advantages of the proposed approach.

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  1. West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Żołnierska 52, 71-210, Szczecin, Poland

    Adam Nowosielski

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  1. Institute of Telecommunications and Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, UTP, Bydgoszcz, Poland

    Michał Choraś

  2. Institute of Telecommunications and Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, UTP, Bydgoszcz, Poland

    Ryszard S. Choraś

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Nowosielski, A. (2019). Text Entry by Rotary Head Movements. In: Choraś, M., Choraś, R. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 10. IP&C 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 892. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03658-4_9

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