저시력 장애인의 효과적인 스마트 기기 사용을 위한 드래그 기반 문자 입력 인터페이스

Character Input Interface Based on Drag Gesture For The Effective Use of Smart Devices of The Visually Impaired

In this paper, it suggests how to input what it needs under gesture based which is able to put its text 3 times faster than an existing way with voice based by a person who is a visually impaired person with a smart device that is flat display without a physical button. The suggesting way is a text input method based on gesture that after setting the touch display of the smart phone to 8 directions, then, it inputs number, English/Korean tests and special characters with initial location and central point of input texts following drag motion of the users or it controls and processes all applications in the smart devices naturally. It tries to prove efficiency of this method through real test to the visually impaired.