Ability-based Keyboards for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Understanding How Individuals’ Movement Patterns Translate to More Efficient Keyboards

Autor: Claire Mitchell, Gabriel Cler, Susan Fager, Paola Contessa, Serge Roy, Gianluca De Luca, Joshua Kline, Jennifer Vojtech
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.
Popis: This study presents the evaluation of ability-based methods extended to keyboard generation for alternative communication in people with dexterity impairments due to motor disabilities. Our approach characterizes user-specific cursor control abilities from a multidirectional point-select task to configure letters on a virtual keyboard based on estimated time, distance, and direction of movement. These methods were evaluated in three individuals with motor disabilities against a generically optimized keyboard and the ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard. We highlight key observations relating to the heterogeneity of the manifestation of motor disabilities, perceived importance of communication technology, and quantitative improvements in communication performance when characterizing an individual's movement abilities to design personalized AAC interfaces.
Databáze: OpenAIRE