Literature Reviews

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

• Developing Steady Clicks: A Method of Cursor Assistance for People with Motor Impairments

  Shari Trewin, Simeon Keates, Karyn Moffatt (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper from IBM Research and the University of British Columbia presents Steady Clicks, a cursor assistance feature designed to reduce clicking errors for mouse users with motor impairments. The system addresses three specific error types identif…

  • motor impairment
  • cursor assistance
  • mouse input
  • clicking errors
  • target acquisition
  • pointer control
  • Parkinson's disease
  • cerebral palsy
  • assistive technology

• Improvements in Vision-based Pointer Control

  Rick Kjeldsen (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents the HeadTracking Pointer (HTP), a vision-based head tracking system developed at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center that uses a standard webcam to allow people with motor disabilities to control a computer pointer through head move…

  • head tracking
  • pointer control
  • computer vision
  • assistive technology
  • motor disabilities
  • cerebral palsy
  • face tracking
  • alternative input