TAGSwipe: Touch Assisted Gaze Swipe for Text Entry

Kumar, Chandan, Hedeshy, Ramin, MacKenzie, Scott and Staab, Steffen (2020) TAGSwipe: Touch Assisted Gaze Swipe for Text Entry. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,, , Honululu, United States. 25 - 30 Apr 2020. 12 pp . (In Press)

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Abstract

The conventional dwell-based methods for text entry by gaze are typically slow and uncomfortable. A swipe-based method that maps gaze path into words offers an alternative. However, it requires the user to explicitly indicate the beginning and ending of a word, which is typically achieved by tedious gazeonly selection. This paper introduces TAGSwipe, a bi-modal method that combines the simplicity of touch with the speed of gaze for swiping through a word. The result is an efficient and comfortable dwell-free text entry method. In the lab study TAGSwipe achieved an average text entry rate of 15.46 wpm and significantly outperformed conventional swipe-based and dwell-based methods in efficacy and user satisfaction.

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