ECTkeyboard

Product Description: 

The ECTkeyboard is a virtual keyboard that allows individuals with upper extremity disabilities, quadriplegia, or severe physical disabilities select letters, numbers or commands on a computer by pressing a button or a pedal. This application can also be used in conjunction with eye-tracking devices, allowing users to select a symbol from a matrix by changing their sight direction. The application is fully customizable with more than 140 adjustable parameters, and users can change the colors and fonts of the interface, all form positions, the speed of selection and de-selection of symbols, the size and position of the progress bar, and other parameters.

Main Features: 

• Unlimited user profiles supported by fast loading and switching speed. Such an approach allows various users on one personal computer to create unique interface settings and keyboard layouts.
• 10 various data input modes (two of the mentioned modes support external eye-tracking devices). This feature makes ECTkeyboard useful for patients with various physical conditions.
• Convenient interface, with the possibility to change symbol order, key size, and other visual parameters.
• Special operation modes for visually impaired people or people with distortions of color perception. The application allows users to use its special high-contrast color scheme and huge fonts, as well as the window with a selected letter or symbol thumbnail. Furthermore, ECTkeyboard can be used by totally blind patients, due to a special feature that confirms all letters with a synthesized voice.
• PROspecial graphical icons with letters or numbers (or instead of them) can be great for those patients who don't speak localization languages or just can't read.
• The fast entry mode with the vocabulary of frequently used words allows users to avoid long symbols by symbol typing, increasing the total speed of program operation and text typing.
• Possibility to create a vocabulary for names, locations and special words that can't be found in standard vocabularies.
• Users can implement special commands, allowing patients to change keyboard layouts, enable/disable sound confirmation, and use various additional options and tools right from the main window of the application without any need to call an assistant to perform the additional setting procedure.
• Various localization support, i.e. users can choose their native language for the interface. Fast-entry vocabularies are also available for several languages.
• Flexible setting procedure, i.e. users can change more than 130 parameters, which allow changes to the functionality and the interface of the application in order to create a comfortable atmosphere for each specific user.
• Modularity of the application. Users can change colors and fonts for each window, hiding or showing them if necessary.
• Possibility to transfer any typed text to any third party application, i.e. text editor, internet browser, chat window, etc.
• Typed text can be automatically saved after a predefined period of time.
• Small size and portability of the application, which allows ECTkeyboard to run from any external storage device.
• Low technical requirements of computing resources.

More Information: 

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