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GazeTry: Swipe Text Typing Using Gaze

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Yi Liu,

Chi Zhang,

Chonho Lee,

Bu-Sung Lee,

Alex Qiang ChenAuthors Info & Claims

OzCHI '15: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction

Pages 192 - 196

https://doi.org/10.1145/2838739.2838804

Published: 07 December 2015 Publication History

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Over the last decades, eye gaze has become an alternative form of text entry by some physically challenged people. Recently a dwell-free system has been proposed, which has been proven to be much faster compared to other existing dwell-free systems. However, it is vulnerable to some common text entry problems. In the paper, we propose GazeTry, a dwell-free gaze-based text entry system which allows people to type a word by gazing sequentially at the letters of the word. Simulation and experiments results show that our proposed new dwell-free system, GazeTry with the Moving Window String Matching (MoWing) algorithm has better accuracy and more resilience to text entry errors.

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DOI:10.1145/2838739

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