Thomas J. Hubbell
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses a research project targeted at the design and implementation of an interface intended to allow manually disabled people to more easily perform the task of programming. It proposes a Speech User Interface (SUI) targeted for this task. Voice was selected as the means of input as an alternative to the keyboard and mouse. Traditional programming IDEs tend to be character and line oriented. It is argued that this orientation is not conducive to voice input, and so a syntaxdirected programming interface is proposed. To test the viability of this combination of voice with a syntax-directed approach, an editor named VASDE (Voice-Activated Syntax-Directed Editor) was implemented using ECLIPSE as the underlying platform for development. This paper describes the syntax-directed interface, VASDE, and some of the lessons learned from initial usability studies.
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- A voice-activated syntax-directed editor for manually disabled programmers
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