The chording glove: a glove-based text input device

This paper introduces a new text input device called the chording glove. The keys of a chord keyboard are mounted on the fingers of a glove. A chord can be made by pressing the fingers against any surface. Shift buttons placed on the index finger enable the glove to enter the full ASCII character se...

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Published inIEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part C, Applications and reviews Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 186 - 191
Main Authors Rosenberg, R., Slater, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.1999
Subjects
Buttons
Character generation
Computer science
Cybernetics
Fingers
Gloves
Input devices
Keyboards
Keys
Portable computers
Pressing
Texts
Thumb
Virtual environment
Virtual reality
Wearable computers
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Summary:This paper introduces a new text input device called the chording glove. The keys of a chord keyboard are mounted on the fingers of a glove. A chord can be made by pressing the fingers against any surface. Shift buttons placed on the index finger enable the glove to enter the full ASCII character set. The chording glove is designed as a text input device for wearable computers and virtual environments. An experiment was conducted to assess the performance of the glove. After an average of 80 min of a tutorial, ten subjects reached a continuous text input speed of 8.9/spl plusmn/1.4 words/min, and after 10 1-hr sessions, they achieved 16.8/spl plusmn/2.5 words/min.
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ISSN:1094-6977
DOI:10.1109/5326.760563