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SlideType: universal design text-entry interface for touchscreen devices

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In this work, we present SlideType, an intuitive text-entry system on touchscreen devices with touch and gestural inputs as well as visual and auditory output to be used by as many people as possible, including those have vision, dexterity and cognition impairments. 9 participants were tested using SlideType to input a name such as "John Smith" without training. Overall, participants were able to complete the task of typing and editing. We reported some usability study results.

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  • (2016)Developing Apps for Visually Impaired People: Lessons Learned from Practice2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)10.1109/HICSS.2016.704(5691-5700)Online publication date: Jan-2016

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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. feed-forward
  3. gestural input
  4. mobile
  5. text-entry
  6. touchscreen
  7. universal design

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