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Touchless virtual keyboard controlled by eye blinking and EEG signals

  • Silesian University of Technology

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Abstract

The paper describes the idea of touchless virtual keyboard designed for disabled people with tetraparesis. Each key can be selected by three double eye blinks registered by EMG sensor. EEG signals are used as a support that allows the user to change the input mode of single characters to the mode of predicted words selection. The keyboard was implemented and evaluated during provided experiments. Obtained result (WPM=1.11) partially confirms the calculated typing speed (WPM=1.23). It is also found that the keyboard efficiency can be improved by using a list of predicted words, even the number of those words is low and they are short (WPM=1.27). Provided discuss presents that improved keyboard used by experienced users could achieve the typing efficiency even up to WPM=3.15.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMan-Machine Interactions 5 - 5th International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions, ICMMI 2017
EditorsAleksandra Gruca, Tadeusz Czachorski, Katarzyna Harezlak, Stanislaw Kozielski, Agnieszka Piotrowska, Tadeusz Czachorski
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages52-61
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319677910
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event5th International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions, ICMMI 2017 - Krakow, Poland
Duration: 3 Oct 20176 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume659
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions, ICMMI 2017
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKrakow
Period3/10/176/10/17

Keywords

  • BCI
  • Brain-computer interface
  • Eye blinking
  • Text entry
  • Virtual keyboard

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • General Computer Science

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