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OneHandBraille: An Alternative Virtual Keyboard for Blind People

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This paper presents a new text entry method for visually impaired people called OneHandBraille. This gesture-based method uses only one user’s hand typing the Braille Code. Blind users do not have to learn a new code, some dots are simply replaced by swipes on the surface of a touch screen. The article describes the method, the evaluation of prototype implementation for mobile devices, and comparison to the most similar existing solution. The obtained results are encouraging and bring hope that the method can be useful in the real mobile application.

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Publication financed by the Institute of Informatics at Silesian University of Technology, statutory research no. 02/020/BK-16/0077.

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    Krzysztof Dobosz & Michał Szuścik

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

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    Tadeusz Czachórski

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Dobosz, K., Szuścik, M. (2018). OneHandBraille: An Alternative Virtual Keyboard for Blind People. In: Gruca, A., Czachórski, T., Harezlak, K., Kozielski, S., Piotrowska, A. (eds) Man-Machine Interactions 5. ICMMI 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 659. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67792-7_7

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