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Filteryedping: A Dwell-Free Eye Typing Technique

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Diogo Pedrosa,

Maria da Graça Pimentel,

Khai N. TruongAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 303 - 306

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2725458

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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The ability to type using eye gaze only is extremely important for individuals with a severe motor disability. To eye type, the user currently must sequentially gaze at letters in a virtual keyboard and dwell on each desired letter for a specific amount of time to input that key. Dwell-based eye typing has two possible drawbacks: unwanted input if the dwell threshold is too short or slow typing rates if the threshold is long. We demonstrate an eye typing technique, which does not require the user to dwell on the letters that she wants to input. Our method automatically filters out unwanted letters from the sequence of letters gazed at while typing a word. It ranks candidate words based on their length and frequency and presents them to the user for confirmation. Spell correction and support for typing words not in the corpus are also included.

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1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

2546 pages

ISBN:9781450331463

DOI:10.1145/2702613

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Huawei, USA
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Yonsei University, Korea
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Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, Korea

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