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This article presents a new text entry method for Visually Impaired people called MoonTouch. This method uses an enhanced version of the Moon system to help and assist visually impaired people to enter text into their touchscreen devices using simple gestures. A clinical tests of the method with a population of visually impaired participants showed that MoonTouch was perceived well by the users and presented a good learning curve.
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Heni, S., Abdallah, W., Archambault, D., Uzan, G., Bouhlel, M.S. (2016). An Empirical Evaluation of MoonTouch: A Soft Keyboard for Visually Impaired People. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_66
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