Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged gestural input.

Gestural Text Entry on Multiple Devices

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

This paper from Carnegie Mellon University presents adaptations of the EdgeWrite unistroke text entry method across multiple computer input devices: styluses, touchpads, displacement and isometric joysticks, four keys or buttons, and trackballs. Edge…
Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads

Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, Edmund F. LoPresti (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

This paper presents two adaptations of EdgeWrite, a gestural text entry method originally designed as a stylus-based unistroke technique for people with tremor, reconfigured for use with power wheelchair joysticks and touchpads. The research addresse…
EZ Ballot with Multimodal Inputs and Outputs

Seunghyun Lee, Xiao Xiong, Liu Elaine Yilin, Jon Sanford (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

This demonstration paper presents the EZ Ballot, a prototype accessible voting system that fundamentally reconceptualizes ballot design to provide an equal voting experience for all voters regardless of ability. Current accessible voting machines add…