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Item Open Access Computer vision based unistroke keyboard system and mouse for the handicapped(IEEE, 2003-07) Erdem, M .Erkut; Erdem, İ. Aykut; Atalay, Volkan; Çetin, A. EnisIn this paper, a unistroke keyboard based on computer vision is described for the handicapped. The keyboard can be made of paper or fabric containing an image of a keyboard, which has an upside down U-shape. It can even be displayed on a computer screen. Each character is represented by a non-overlapping rectangular region on the keyboard image and the user enters a character by illuminating a character region with a laser pointer. The keyboard image is monitored by a camera and illuminated key locations are recognized. During the text entry process the user neither have to turn the laser light off nor raise the laser light from the keyboard. A disabled person who has difficulty using his/her hands may attach the laser pointer to an eyeglass and easily enter text by moving his/her head to point the laser beam on a character location. In addition, a mouse-like device can be developed based on the same principle. The user can move the cursor by moving the laser light on the computer screen which is monitored by a camera. © 2003 IEEE.Item Open Access Vision-based continuous Graffiti™-like text entry system(SPIE, 2004) Erdem, İ. A.; Erdem, M. E.; Atalay, V.; Çetin, A. EnisIt is now possible to design real-time, low-cost computer version systems even in personal computers due to the recent advances in electronics and the computer industry. Due to this reason, it is feasible to develop computer-vision-based human-computer interaction systems. A vision-based continuous Graffiti™-like text entry system is presented. The user sketches characters in a Griffiti™-like alphabet in a continuous manner on a flat surface using a laser pointer. The beam of the laser pointer is tracked on the image sequences captured by a camera, and the corresponding written word is recognized from the extracted trace of the laser beam. © 2004 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.