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Original Research

SwingBoard: introducing swipe based virtual keyboard for visually impaired and blind users

Iftekhar Ahmeda Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka, BangladeshORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2787-7123View further author information
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Omar Farrokb Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Tejgaon, BangladeshCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 1482-1493 | Received 23 Oct 2022, Accepted 31 Mar 2023, Published online: 25 Apr 2023

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