A review of design and evaluation practices in mobile text entry for visually impaired and blind persons

A Komninos, V Stefanis, J Garofalakis - Multimodal Technologies and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Millions of people with vision impairment or vision loss face considerable barriers in using
mobile technology and services due to the difficulty of text entry. In this paper, we review …

A human-computer collaborative editing tool for conceptual diagrams

L Pan, C Yu, Z He, Y Shi - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Editing (eg, editing conceptual diagrams) is a typical office task that requires numerous
tedious GUI operations, resulting in poor interaction efficiency and user experience …

From 2d to 3d: Facilitating single-finger mid-air ty** on qwerty keyboards with probabilistic touch modeling

X Yi, C Liang, H Chen, J Song, C Yu, H Li… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mid-air text entry on virtual keyboards suffers from the lack of tactile feedback, which brings
challenges to both tap detection and input prediction. In this paper, we explored the …

Eye-hand ty**: Eye gaze assisted finger ty** via bayesian processes in ar

Y Ren, Y Zhang, Z Liu, Y Li, L Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, AR HMDs are widely used in scenarios such as intelligent manufacturing and
digital factories. In a factory environment, fast and accurate text input is crucial for operators' …

Lightwrite: Teach handwriting to the visually impaired with a smartphone

Z Wu, C Yu, X Xu, T Wei, T Zou, R Wang… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Learning to write is challenging for blind and low vision (BLV) people because of the lack of
visual feedback. Regardless of the drastic advancement of digital technology, handwriting is …

Facilitating text entry on smartphones with QWERTY keyboard for users with Parkinson's disease

Y Wang, A Yu, X Yi, Y Zhang, I Chatterjee… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
QWERTY is the primary smartphone text input keyboard configuration. However, insertion
and substitution errors caused by hand tremors, often experienced by users with Parkinson's …

Accessible Gesture Ty** on Smartphones for People with Low Vision

D Zhang, Z Li, V Ashok, WH Seiple… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While gesture ty** is widely adopted on touchscreen keyboards, its support for low vision
users is limited. We have designed and implemented two keyboard prototypes, layout …

Taming entangled accessibility forum threads for efficient screen reading

AR Aiyer, IV Ramakrishnan, V Ashok - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility forums enable individuals with visual impairments to connect and
collaboratively seek solutions to technical issues, as well as share reviews, best practices …

The practice of applying AI to benefit visually impaired people in China

C Yu, J Bu - Communications of the ACM, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Federation (CDPF), there are now 17 million visually impaired people in China, among
which three million are totally blind, while the others are low-visioned. In the past two …

Challenges in Mobile Text Entry Using Virtual Keyboards for Low-Vision Users

V Stefanis, A Komninos, J Garofalakis - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Mobile text entry for sighted and blind persons has received much research attention.
However, much less is known about meeting the text entry needs of persons with low vision …