Abstract
Up to 15% of the Indian school-going children suffer from dyslexia. This paper aims to determine the extent to which existing knowledge about the eye-tracking based human-computer interface can be used to assist these children in their reading and writing activities. A virtual keyboard system with multimodal feedback is proposed and designed for a lexically and structurally complex language and optimized for multimodal feedback involving several portable, non-invasive, and low-cost input devices: a touch screen, an eye-tracker, and a soft-switch. The performance was evaluated in terms of text-entry rate, information transfer rate, and type of errors with three different experimental conditions: 1) touch-screen condition with auditory feedback 2) eye-tracking condition with auditory and visual feedback, and 3) eye-tracking and soft-switch condition with auditory and visual feedback. The proposed multimodal feedback has shown a significant improvement in text-entry rate with less error. This work represents the first virtual keyboard with multimodal feedback for dyslexic children in the Hindi language, which can be extended to other languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2 Jul 2018 |
| Event | 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference 02-06 JULY BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND 2018 - Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 2 Jul 2018 → 6 Jul 2018 http://hci2018.bcs.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference 02-06 JULY BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Belfast |
| Period | 2/07/18 → 6/07/18 |
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Keywords
- Graphical user interface; eye-tracking; multimodal feedback; dyslexia.