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TrueKeys: identifying and correcting typing errors for people with motor impairments

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Shaun K. Kane,

Jacob O. Wobbrock,

Mark Harniss,

Kurt L. JohnsonAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 349 - 352

https://doi.org/10.1145/1378773.1378827

Published: 13 January 2008 Publication History

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People with motor impairments often have difficulty typing using desktop keyboards. We developed TrueKeys, a system that combines models of word frequency, keyboard layout, and typing error patterns to automatically identify and correct typing mistakes. In this paper, we describe the TrueKeys algorithm, compare its performance to existing correction algorithms, and report on a study of TrueKeys with 9 motor-impaired and 9 non-impaired participants. Running in non-interactive mode, TrueKeys performed more corrections than popular commercial and open source spell checkers. Used interactively, both motor-impaired and non-impaired users performed typing tasks significantly more accurately with TrueKeys than without. However, typing speed was reduced while TrueKeys was enabled.

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IUI '08: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

January 2008

458 pages

ISBN:9781595939876

DOI:10.1145/1378773

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Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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