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People with severe motor disabilities, such as myopathy, cerebral palsy and musculoskeletal disorders, have difficulties in using physical keyboards. Generally, they are obliged to use virtual on-screen keyboards, also called soft keyboards. Many solutions have been tested since the early 80s. Their main objective has been to provide a means for communication, but additional goals could exist: (1) to reduce the number of interactions either with ambiguous keyboards [1] or prediction systems [2]; and (2) to make the access to a desired entry easier through a reorganization of the keyboard’s layout, either static or dynamic [3].
This Special Thematic Session (STS) will discuss recent experience and contributions on approaches, methods, models, techniques and experimental work for enhancing text entry accessibility for motor disabled people. This Special Thematic Session will consider all aspects of research on text entry, including (but not limited to):

• Measures and models for text entry
• Prediction and completion systems
• Entry devices
• HCI Design
• Evaluation of text entry techniques
• User experience

Citations:
[1] MacKenzie, I. S. (2009), The one-key challenge: Searching for a fast one-key text entry method, in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility – ASSETS 2009, pp. 91-98.
[2] Wandmacher, T., Antoine, J.-Y., Poirier, F., Départe, J.-P. (2008), Sibylle, An Assistive Communication System Adapting to the Context and its User, in ACM Transaction on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), vol. 1, article no. 6, may 2008.
[3] Zhai, S., Hunter, M., Smith, B.A. (2000), The Metropolis Keyboard -- An Exploration of Quantitative Techniques for Virtual Keyboard Design, in the Proceeding of the 13th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST 2000, pp 119-128.

Chairs:

Raynal Mathieu, IRIT – IHCS team, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse, F

Martin Benoit, LITA, Université Paul Verlaine – Metz

Submission: 

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Contributions to the STS are evaluated by the Programme Commitee of ICCHP and by the chair(s) of the STS.
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Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010