Designing a scanning on-screen keyboard for people with severe motor disabilities

Yun Lung Lin*, Ting Fang Wu, Ming Chung Chen, Yao Ming Yeh, Hwa Pey Wang

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Abstract

This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a scanning on-screen keyboard for persons with severe motor disabilities. In order to enhance the typing performance, the on-screen keyboard employs the group-row-column scanning and a frequency-of-use layout. Besides the international alphabetical layout, the on-screen keyboard also provides two Chinese selection layouts for Chinese users. The usability evaluation was carried out with simulations and experiments. The usability evaluation was conducted to compare the performance with that of the QWERTY layout of block scanning built in Microsoft Windows XP. The results demonstrated that the performance of using the scanning on-screen keyboard was better than that of using the Windows XP. No significant difference between the error rates of the two different keyboards was found.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputers Helping People with Special Needs - 11th International Conference, ICCHP 2008, Proceedings
Pages1184-1187
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2008 - Linz, Austria
Duration: 09 07 200811 07 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5105 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2008
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityLinz
Period09/07/0811/07/08

Keywords

  • Accessibility
  • On-screen keyboard
  • Scanning selection

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