Paper Info
Title
VectorEntry: Text Entry Mechanism Using Handheld Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices for People with Visual Impairments
Abstract
Mobile phones are now touch-enabled, which allows the use of on-screen keyboards for text entry. Text entry tasks are among the most frequently occurring tasks performed by mobile phone users. However, people with visual impairments find it difficult to use on-screen keyboards, and this affects their digital literacy. In this article, a text entry mechanism is proposed to solve this problem using directional movement gestures suitable for people with visual impairments. Two forms of directional movement gestures, guided and unguided movements, are first studied, and the analysis reveals that unguided directional movement gestures are more suitable for a text entry mechanism for individuals who are visually impaired. Based on this insight, a text entry mechanism called VectorEntry is developed. It uses eight unguided directional movement gestures to select characters on the keyboard of a touch-enabled mobile phone. The keyboard is designed in accordance with the traditional 4×3 telephone keypad. The results of experiments show that the average text entry rate of VectorEntry was 3.3 wpm, 83.3% higher than the state-of-the-art No-Look Notes used for similar tasks. Its average rate of error in text entry was only 0.19% per character.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3406537
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Accessible computing,mobile computing,rehabilitation engineering,text entry mechanism,user interface design,visual impairment
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1936-7228
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Debasis Samanta122737.98
Tuhin Chakraborty2233.22