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Swipe&Switch: Text Entry Using Gaze Paths and Context Switching

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Andrew Kurauchi,

Carlos H. Morimoto,

Margrit BetkeAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '20 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Pages 84 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/3379350.3416193

Published: 20 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Swipe-based methods for text entry by gaze allow users to swipe through the letters of a word by gaze, analogous to how they can swipe with a finger on a touchscreen keyboard. Two challenges for these methods are: (1) gaze paths do not possess clear start and end positions, and (2) it is difficult to design text editing features. We introduce Swipe&Switch, a text-entry interface that uses swiping and switching to improve gaze-based interaction. The interface contains three context regions, and detects the start/end of a gesture and emits text editing commands (e.g., word insertion, deletion) when a user switches focus between these regions. A user study showed that Swipe&Switch provides a better user experience and higher text entry rate over a baseline, EyeSwipe.

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Cui WLiu RLi ZWang YWang AZhao XRashidian SBaig FRamakrishnan IWang FBi X(2023)GlanceWriter: Writing Text by Glancing Over Letters with GazeProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581269(1-13)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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Index Terms

Swipe&Switch: Text Entry Using Gaze Paths and Context Switching
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction techniques
      1. Gestural input
      2. Text input

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DOI:10.1145/3379350

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Mutasim ABatmaz AHudhud Mughrabi MStuerzlinger W(2024)The Guided Evaluation MethodInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103317190:COnline publication date: 1-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103317
Cui WLiu RLi ZWang YWang AZhao XRashidian SBaig FRamakrishnan IWang FBi X(2023)GlanceWriter: Writing Text by Glancing Over Letters with GazeProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581269(1-13)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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