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An Ambiguous Technique for Nonvisual Text Entry
Dylan C. Gaines, Michigan Technological University, Open Access Dissertation, 2023
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- What it is
- A doctoral dissertation on text entry for blind people, with a longitudinal study of 12 blind participants. The abstract reports their average entry speed on a new technique, a QWERTY keyboard with VoiceOver, and braille screen input.
- How much weight it carries
- Doctoral dissertation from a university repository, the same research group as the 2025 interview study. Dissertations are not peer-reviewed in the same way as journal papers, and the study compares input methods rather than dictation, so it shows typing speed for blind people, not speech speed.
Facts taken from this source
- In a longitudinal study with 12 blind participants, the dissertation reports an average entry speed of 7.5 words per minute on a QWERTY keyboard with VoiceOver.
“We evaluate the improved interface in a longitudinal study with 12 blind participants. On average, participants entered text at 8.2 words per minute using FlexType, 7.5 words per minute using a Qwerty keyboard with VoiceOver” (Abstract)