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This paper provides an overview of 150 publications regarding text input for motor-impaired people and describes current state of the art. It focuses on common techniques of text entry including selection of keys, approaches to character layouts, use of language models, and interaction modalities. These aspects of text entry methods are further analyzed, and examples are given. The paper also focuses on an overview of reported evaluations by describing experiments, which can be conducted, to assess the performance of a text entry method. Following this overview, a summary of 61 text entry methods for motor-impaired people found in the related literature is presented, classifying those methods according to the aforementioned aspects and reported evaluation. This overview was assembled with the aim to provide a starting point to the new researchers in the field of accessible text entry. The text entry methods are also categorized according to the suitability for various conditions of the users.

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This research has been supported by the projects TextAble (LH12070; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Rep.) and Automatically Generated UIs in Nomadic Applications (SGS10/290/OHK3/3T/13; FIS 10-802900).

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Polacek, O., Sporka, A.J. & Slavik, P. Text input for motor-impaired people. Univ Access Inf Soc 16, 51–72 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-015-0433-0

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