Literature Reviews

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

• Using Handhelds to Help People with Motor Impairments

  Brad A. Myers, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Sunny Yang, Brian Yeung, Jeffrey Nichols, Robert Miller (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '02)

  This paper presents the Pebbles project from Carnegie Mellon University, which developed software allowing handheld computers (Palm PDAs) to substitute for a PC's mouse and keyboard for people with muscular dystrophy and similar neuromuscular disorde…

  • motor disability
  • muscular dystrophy
  • alternative input
  • assistive technology
  • handheld devices
  • text entry
  • on-screen keyboard
  • word prediction
  • case study
  • fine motor control