papers

Towards Ability-Based Optimization for Aging Users

This paper addresses the design of user interfaces for aging adults. Older people differ vastly in how aging affects their perceptual, motor, and cognitive abilities. When it comes to interface design for aging users, the one design for all approach fails. We present first results from attempts to extend ability-based ...

Designing an efficient virtual keyboard for text composition in Bengali

Recent advancement in communication and information technology (ICT) flourishes the computing and handheld devices in urban and rural areas in India. Now people all over the world communicate each other using hand-held digital gadgets like PDA, cell phone etc. in addition to desktop PC and laptop. But, text entry task ...

Effective virtual keyboard design with size and space adaptation

In recent years, there are huge developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT in present form has offered to interact with the computing system in users own language. But, there are several challenges to be addressed to achieve the full advantages of ICT. One of the biggest issue is standard text ...

EV-Pen: Leveraging Electrovibration Haptic Feedback in Pen Interaction

This paper presents an Electrovibration Pen (EV-Pen) which incorporates electrovibration technology into pen interactions. The EV-Pen has two unique characteristics: precise interaction and pen-on-paper feeling. We conducted four experiments for evaluating the EV-Pen. Experiment 1 was to determine preliminary character...

An Approach to Design Virtual Keyboards for Text Composition in Indian Languages

Of late there has been significant development in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which offers interaction with computing systems in a large scale. Text input mechanisms in users own languages are necessary for bringing the ICT advantages to the English illiterates. QWERTY keyboard, however, which was d...