• DocumentCode
    2696486
  • Title

    Huffman Base-4 Text Entry Glove (H4 TEG)

  • Author

    Bajer, Bartosz ; MacKenzie, I. Scott ; Baljko, Melanie

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    18-22 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    41
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    We designed and evaluated a Huffman base-4 Text Entry Glove (H4-TEG). H4-TEG uses pinches between the thumb and fingers on the user´s right hand. Characters and commands use base-4 Huffman codes for efficient input. In a longitudinal study, participants reached 14.0 wpm with error rates <;1%. In an added session without visual feedback, entry speed dropped only by 0.4 wpm. Yet another session was added that required entry of text with punctuation and other symbols. Entry speed dropped by 1.5 wpm.
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; data gloves; error statistics; text analysis; H4-TEG; Huffman base-4 text entry glove; base-4 Huffman code; characters; command; entry speed; error rate; pinches; user right hand; visual feedback; Error analysis; Indexes; Keyboards; Presses; Thumb; Visualization; design; experimentation; input glove; text input;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wearable Computers (ISWC), 2012 16th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Newcastle
  • ISSN
    1550-4816
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1583-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISWC.2012.28
  • Filename
    6246140