Braille text entry on smartwatches: an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell

Mateus M. Luna; Fabrízzio A.A.M.N. De Soares; Hugo A.D. Nascimento; Aaron Quigley

doi:10.1145/3319499.3328233

Braille text entry on smartwatches: an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell

Mateus M. Luna, Fabrízzio A.A.M.N. De Soares, Hugo A.D. Nascimento, Aaron Quigley

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Smartwatches are gaining popularity on market with a set of features comparable to smartphones in a wearable device. This novice technology brings new interaction paradigms and challenges for blind users, who have difficulties dealing with touchscreens. Among a variety of tasks that must be studied, text entry is analyzed, considering that current existing solutions may be unsatisfactory (as voice input) or even unfeasible (as working with tiny QWERTY keyboards) for a blind user. More specifically, this paper presents a study on possible solutions for composing a Braille cell on smart-watches. Five prototypes were developed and different feedback features were proposed. These are confronted with seven specialists on an evaluation study that results in a qualitative analysis of which strategies can be more useful for blind users in a Braille text entry.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367455
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3319499.3328233
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2019
Event	11th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 18 Jun 2019 → 21 Jun 2019 Conference number: 11 https://eics.acm.org/2019/

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISSN (Print)	2160-4428

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Conference	11th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019
Abbreviated title	EICS 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	18/06/19 → 21/06/19
Internet address	https://eics.acm.org/2019/

Keywords

Blind people
Braille
Smartwatches
Text entry
Text input

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Luna, M. M., De Soares, F. A. A. M. N., Nascimento, H. A. D., & Quigley, A. (2019). Braille text entry on smartwatches: an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019 (pp. 1-6). Article 19 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319499.3328233

Luna, Mateus M. ; De Soares, Fabrízzio A.A.M.N. ; Nascimento, Hugo A.D. et al. / Braille text entry on smartwatches : an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019. ACM, 2019. pp. 1-6 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems).

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Luna MM, De Soares FAAMN, Nascimento HAD, Quigley A. Braille text entry on smartwatches: an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2019. ACM. 2019. p. 1-6. 19. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems). doi: 10.1145/3319499.3328233

Braille text entry on smartwatches: an evaluation of methods for composing the Braille cell

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