Paper Info
Title
TypeInBraille: quick eyes-free typing on smartphones
Abstract
In recent years, smartphones (e.g., Apple iPhone) are getting more and more widespread among visually impaired people. Indeed, thanks to natively available screen readers (e.g., VoiceOver) visually impaired persons can access most of the smartphone functionalities and applications. Nonetheless, there are still some operations that require long time or high mental workload to be completed by a visually impaired person. In particular, typing on the on-screen QWERTY keyboard turns out to be challenging in many typical contexts of use of mobile devices (e.g., while moving on a tramcar). In this paper we present the results of an experimental evaluation conducted with visually impaired people to compare the native iPhone on-screen QWERTY keyboard with TypeInBraille, a recently proposed typing technique based on Braille. The experimental evaluation, conducted in different contexts of use, highlights that TypeInBraille significantly improves typing efficiency and accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_90
ICCHP
Keywords
Field
DocType
different context,on-screen QWERTY keyboard,available screen reader,experimental evaluation,mobile device,long time,quick eyes-free,typing technique,high mental workload,native iPhone on-screen QWERTY,apple iPhone
Visually Impaired Persons,Computer science,Workload,Typing,Mobile device,Braille,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7383
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sergio Mascetti149439.13
Cristian Bernareggi215519.98
Matteo Belotti3362.02