Please reply to this query if you have insights or development ideas for gaze-based text editing!

Every answer, idea and a piece of information is highly appreciated! All replies will be reported anonymously.

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To whom it may concern,
I'm writing a master thesis in Department of Computer Sciences in University of Tampere. My aim is to find out how people, who use eye typing systems in their daily life, edit and modify text, which editing ways they prefer and how gaze-controlled text editing could be more convenient to use in the future.

Now I'm contacting you to find out the current situation and development areas seen from eye tracker users', developers' and other experts' side.

I would really appreciate it if you could help me by answering these questions by replying to this email at your earliest convenience, or by the end of August at the latest. You don't need to have answers to all of the questions - every answer, idea and piece of information is highly appreciated!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: johanna (dot) hakola (at) uta (dot) fi.

Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who may be interested in sharing their insights on the topic!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,
Johanna Hakola

Department of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere
FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland

Email: johanna (dot) hakola (at) uta (dot) fi

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1. Choose group you belong to:
[ ] Eye tracker and/or software developer
[ ] Eye tracker user
[ ] Therapist
[ ] Personal assistant/carer
[ ] Researcher
[ ] Other, please specify:

2. Please specify your eye tracker's and/or eye tracking software's name and model/version:

3. If possible, please choose your major user target group(s):
[ ] Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
[ ] Multiple sclerosis (MS)
[ ] Locked-in syndrome
[ ] Celebral palsy
[ ] Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
[ ] Rheumatism / Arthritis disease
[ ] Parkinson's disease
[ ] Spinal cord injury
[ ] Brain injury
[ ] Disabled adults
[ ] Disabled childrens
[ ] Other, please specify:

4. Does the eye tracker device/software work with normal PC, MS Windows operating system and with most common software (Ms Office Word, Messenger, internet browsers etc.)?
Yes or no?
Please explain:

5. Please describe currently available text editing functionalities with eye tracker devices. Describe for example
- How users can edit the text they are writing, for example URLs and chat messages?
- What kind of undo possibilities are available for immediate corrections?
- Is it possible to erase, copy and paste whole words and sentences one by one?
- Which are the most used editing functions?
- Do you have predictive text input and/or auto-correcting? How does it work with eye typing?

6. Sometimes one's health condition and experience level changes over time and more or less editing functions might be needed when using eye
typing. Is it possible users to customize and modify functionalities according to one's needs?
Yes or no?
Please explain:

7. Please describe testing and future development areas and suggestions for improvement, for example:
- Have you tested editing and text modifying functionalities in practise with users?
- What kind of editing functionalities and possibilities users preferred and desired to have, if any?
- Which developing areas you and users consider as most important and most preferred in the future?

8. Other things you?d like to mention, for example about you, eye typing, this study, or just greetings to me:

Thank you very much for your time and effort!