| Presentation | 2004/3/18 Development of the Pen-based PDA system for Visually Disabled Person, and its Evaluation Kousuke NAGANO, Nobuo EZAKI, Kimiyasu KIYOTA, Shinji MIZUNO, Shinji YAMAMOTO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper proposes a pen-based PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) system for visually impaired persons. As one of the computer support method for the blind users, we have already developed an on-line Japanese character recognition algorithm on the desktop PC for them (particularly persons with acquired blindness). The blind novice user of this system is able to directly input Japanese characters using a stylus pen, without well training. However, opportunity to use a computer in various situations is increasing between handicapped persons recently. Therefore, we apply this on-line character recognition algorithm to the E-mail system on the PDA as a ubiquitous computing device. All command operation such as sending, receiving and managing electronic mail operation is executed by one scroll button and two additional buttons on the PDA. For the evaluation examination, a prototype system is developed including the on-line pen input function, a text editor and an E-mail application. We found that there are many input character mistakes when the user is not experienced in pen input operation. However, immediately, the blind user was able to make the sentence of E-mail and was able to send the text using our PDA system. We confirmed our proposed pen-based PDA system provides easy input method for the novice blind user. |
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| Keyword(in English) | On-line character recognition / Ubiquitous Computing / Blind person / PDA |
| Paper # | WIT2003-51 |
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| Conference Date | 2004/3/18(1days) |
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| Title (in English) | Development of the Pen-based PDA system for Visually Disabled Person, and its Evaluation |
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| Keyword(1) | On-line character recognition |
| Keyword(2) | Ubiquitous Computing |
| Keyword(3) | Blind person |
| Keyword(4) | PDA |
| 1st Author's Name | Kousuke NAGANO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Toyohashi University of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nobuo EZAKI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Toba National College of Maritime Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kimiyasu KIYOTA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Kumamoto National College of Technology |
| 4th Author's Name | Shinji MIZUNO |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Toyohashi University of Technology |
| 5th Author's Name | Shinji YAMAMOTO |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Toyohashi University of Technology |
| Date | 2004/3/18 |
| Paper # | WIT2003-51 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.103 |
| Number (no) | 746 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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