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Hugo Nicolau
Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico
Publications - 71
Citations - 1457
Hugo Nicolau is an academic researcher from Instituto Superior Técnico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mobile device & Touchscreen. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 68 publications receiving 1212 citations. Previous affiliations of Hugo Nicolau include Rochester Institute of Technology & University of Lisbon.
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Blind people and mobile touch-based text-entry: acknowledging the need for different flavors
TL;DR: Results show that different capability levels have significant impact on performance and that this impact is related with the different methods' demands, which acknowledge the need of accounting for individual characteristics and giving space for difference, towards inclusive design.
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BrailleType: unleashing braille over touch screen mobile phones
TL;DR: BrailleType, a text-entry method based on the Braille alphabet, is proposed, which avoids multi-touch gestures in favor of a more simple single-finger interaction, featuring few and large targets.
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From Tapping to Touching: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users
TL;DR: The NavTouch navigational method enables blind users to input text in a touch-screen device by performing directional gestures to navigate a vowel-indexed alphabet.
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Elderly text-entry performance on touchscreens
Hugo Nicolau,Joaquim Jorge +1 more
TL;DR: Text-entry performance and typing patterns of elderly users on touch-based devices are examined, and measured hand tremor largely correlates with text-entry errors, suggesting that it should be approached to improve input accuracy.
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Getting Smartphones to Talkback: Understanding the Smartphone Adoption Process of Blind Users
TL;DR: The results show that mastering these devices is an arduous and long task, confirming the users' initial concerns, and discuss how smartphones are being integrated in everyday activities and highlight the need for better adoption support tools.