The chording glove: a glove-based text input device

Abstract

Abstract-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 6 6 6 1:4 words/min, and after 10 1-hr sessions, they achieved 16:8 6 6 6 2:5 words/min.

One-Handed Mobile Text Entry

“…Clearly, all the methods discussed in this paper are much slower than chording techniques such as the chording glove (Rosenberg and Slater, 1999). In comparison, the chording glove allows users to type approximately 50 characters-per-minute after 80 minutes of practice and 95 characters-perminute after 10 hours of practice.…”

“…The first five key text entry techniques were chord based keyboards originally used for mail-sorting applications (see the excellent survey of chord based text entry by Noyes (Noyes, 1983). Several studies addressing various aspects of fivekey chord keyboards exist (Lehikoinen and Roykee, 2001;Rosenberg and Slater, 1999;Seibel, 1962;Kirchenbaum et al, 1986) and commercial chord keyboards include the Microwriter. Five-keys have also been proposed for use in stenograph typewriters (Beddoes and Hu, 1994).…”

A glove for tapping and discrete 1D/2D input

“…Our formative evaluation and the high performance of the glove's developers led us to an overly optimistic experiment design. For contrast, Rosenberg and Slater's evaluation of the chording glove [9] involved ten sessions of 50 minutes each for participants to reach competence in text entry (though much of that time could be attributed to learning chords). It is clear from our experiment that the glove needs further evaluation as well as improved hardware if it is to be deployed.…”

“…Familiar examples include the chording glove [9] and commercial products from Fakespace and RallyPoint. This paper describes a glove with which users enter input by tapping a fingertip with the thumb or by rubbing the thumb over the palmar surfaces of the middle and index fingers.…”

Glove Based User Interaction Techniques for Augmented Reality in an Outdoor Environment

“…Glove input devices, such as the 'chording glove' [36] have been used as devices to emulate five button chording devices, one button for each finger on a hand. One main difference with our approach is we do not attempt to replicate the entire QWERTY keyboard.…”