E-Assiste: A Platform Allowing Evaluation of Text Input Systems

Mathieu Raynal (1) , Sébastien Maubert (2) , Nadine Vigouroux (1, 3) , Frédéric Vella (1, 3) , Laurent Magnien (2)

1 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE
2 IRIT-DIAMANT - Dialogue, InterAction, Multimodalité, Accessibilité, Nouvelles Technologies
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

In this article we describe the E-Assiste platform which is intended for the evaluation of text entry systems. This platform enables to easily evaluate a text entry system, taking advantage of the already existing agents, such as the presentation of the text for a text copy task. Furthermore, E-Assiste captures all the events in such a way that it's possible to analyze them after the experimentation. So that the analysis is easier, we defined a communication protocol, so all the sent messages have the same pattern. To show the usability and the utility of our platform, we bring in this article two use cases of text entry evaluation with E-Assiste.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Mathieu Raynal, Sébastien Maubert, Nadine Vigouroux, Frédéric Vella, Laurent Magnien. E-Assiste: A Platform Allowing Evaluation of Text Input Systems. 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI @ 11th HCI 2005), Jul 2005, Las vegas, United States. ⟨hal-01761479⟩