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Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'06)
A Keystroke and Pointer Control Input Interface for Wearable Computers
Pisa, Italy
March 13-March 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2518-0
Farooq Ahmad, University of Alberta
Petr Musilek, University of Alberta
The widespread adoption of mobile electronic devices and the advent of wearable computing has encouraged the development of compact alternatives to the keyboard and mouse. These include one-handed keyboards, digitizing tablets, and glove-based devices. This paper describes a combination pointer position and non-chorded keystroke input device that relies on miniature wrist-worn wireless video cameras that track finger position. A Hidden Markov Model is used to correlate finger movements to keystrokes during a brief training phase, after which the user can type in the air or above a flat surface as if typing on a stan- dard keyboard. Language statistics are used to help dis- ambiguate keystrokes, allowing the assignment of multiple unique keys to each finger and obviating chorded input. In addition, the system can be trained to recognize certain fin- ger positions for switching between input modes; for exam- ple, from typing mode to pointer movement mode. In the latter mode of operation, the position of the mouse pointer is controlled by hand movement. The camera motion is es- timated by tracking environmental features and is used to control pointer position. This allows fast switching between keystroke mode and pointer control mode.
Citation:
Farooq Ahmad, Petr Musilek, "A Keystroke and Pointer Control Input Interface for Wearable Computers," percom, pp.2-11, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'06), 2006
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