VIPBoard - Improving Screen-Reader Keyboard for Visually Impaired People with Character-Level Auto Correction

Explore a groundbreaking conference talk on VIPBoard, a smart keyboard designed to enhance text input for visually impaired users. Discover how this innovative technology incorporates character-level auto-correction and adaptive layout scaling to significantly reduce touch error rates and increase text entry speed. Learn about the challenges faced by visually impaired individuals when using touchscreen keyboards and how VIPBoard addresses these issues without altering the current input interaction. Gain insights into the keyboard's algorithm, which considers both touch location and language models to predict key probabilities and improve accuracy. Understand the impact of this research on accessibility and human-computer interaction, as presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Glasgow, Scotland.