Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged mouse emulation.
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Consolidating computer operation and wheelchair control
This short ASSETS 2007 demo proposal from Torsten Felzer and Rainer Nordmann at Darmstadt University of Technology describes the integration of two previously separate assistive systems they had built for people with severe physical disabilities. The…
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How to Operate a PC Without Using the Hands
This demo paper presents HaMCoS (Hands-free Mouse Control System), a biosignal interface developed at Darmstadt University of Technology that enables people with severe physical disabilities to operate a Windows PC using intentional contractions of a…
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SUITEKeys: A Speech Understanding Interface for the Motor-Control Challenged
This paper from the University of Southwestern Louisiana presents SUITEKeys, a continuous speech understanding interface that provides complete computer access to users with motor-control impairments by modelling all interaction at the physical keybo…
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Text Entry by Raising the Eyebrow with HaMCoS
This demo paper presents HaMCoS (HAnds-free Mouse COntrol System), a system that enables text entry for people with very severe physical disabilities using tiny contractions of the brow muscle. The system targets users in a "locked-in" state, where c…
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Experiences of Someone with a Neuromuscular Disease in Operating a PC (and Ways to Successfully Overcome Challenges)
This paper describes the first-person experiences of the first author, who has Friedreich's Ataxia (FA) — a progressive neuromuscular disease causing ataxia of limbs, dysarthria, and muscle weakness — in finding a viable computer input method over 25…