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PuffText: a voiceless and touchless text entry solution for mobile phones

Published: 21 October 2013 Publication History

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This work proposes the use of a low-cost software based puff controlled spin keyboard for mobile phones as an alternative interaction technology for people with motor disabilities. It attempts to explore the processing of the audio from the microphone in mobile phones to select characters from a spinning keyboard. A proof of concept of this work is demonstrated by the implementation and experimentation of a mobile application prototype that enables users to perform text entry through "puffing" interaction.

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ASSETS '13: Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 2013
343 pages
ISBN:9781450324052
DOI:10.1145/2513383
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Published: 21 October 2013

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  1. accessibility
  2. alternative HCI
  3. breathing
  4. mobile
  5. text input

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  • (2017)Writing Towards Promoting the Empowerment of Persons With Disabilities in Digital Inclusion TextsProceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3160504.3160509(1-10)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2017
  • (2015)Puff, Puff, Play: A Sip-And-Puff Remote Control for Music PlaybackProceedings of the international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression10.5555/2993778.2993788(34-35)Online publication date: 30-May-2015
  • (2015)Advances on Breathing Based Text Input for Mobile DevicesUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Today's Technologies10.1007/978-3-319-20678-3_27(279-287)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2015
  • (2014)Explorations on breathing based text input for mobile devicesProceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility10.1145/2661334.2661425(345-346)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2014
  • (2014)Text entry using single-channel analog puff inputProceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility10.1145/2661334.2661423(359-360)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2014

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