Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) researchers are turning their attention towards
supporting low-resource languages, such as isiXhosa or Marathi, with only limited training …

With easy access to affordable internet-powered smartphones, developing countries are
adopting smartphone applications to provide enabling services to its citizens, through …

In this paper, we aim to relate the design of WhatsApp with its adoption in developing
countries and inform the design of future products. In the last two and a half years, a large …

Abugida refers to a phonogram writing system where each syllable is represented using a
single consonant or typographic ligature, along with a default vowel or optional diacritic (s) …

Despite the challenges faced by functional illiterates (FXI) when using smartphones,
usability studies of mobile applications for FXI in Nigeria are still lacking in Human …

We were asked to evaluate input mechanisms for touch-screen devices with the objective of
standardising one of them for each of 14 major languages of India. For this purpose, we …

Keyboards are the dominant Input Method Editors (IMEs) used for data input into computers.
With the rise of mobile devices with touchscreen technologies, soft keyboards, also called'on …

Sweet Cheese (switches) is a physical device that brings back the virtual keyboards to the
physical world. Although the virtual keyboards are useful for people with motor impairment …