Categories | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - Experiment with commodity input devices and try to find a novel approach to using multiple devices for user interface navigation. For instance, a touch tablet helps a user 'feel' rough distances, but is difficult to use for precise selections. A trackball, on the other hand, helps users precisely position a cursor, but is poor at indicating how far the cursor has travelled. Using the two together might be beneficial.
Categories | Disabilities: Auditory | Interfaces: Auditory | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Face-to-face | Social impact: Acceptance |
Description - How far are we from using a laptop to interpret ASL to speech? There are papers on recognizing ASL by processing video. Is a camera-equipped laptop powerful enough? Possibly as important, what *could* we do with a camera-equipped laptop? There are "gloves" designed for gamers, could that be used to help interpret ASL?
Categories | Disabilities: Physical | Disabilities: Cognitive | Disabilities: Medical | Disabilities: Auditory | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - Survey what one-handed keyboards are available and how they are used as computer input devices for people with disabilities. How would typing-to-speech compare to ASL to speech as a communication device? In a world where everyone uses "text messaging" on their cell phones and is really good (and fast) at typing on the little keyboards, will people with disabilities benefit?
Categories | Disabilities: Physical | Disabilities: Cognitive | Disabilities: Medical | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - A free, easy to use Morse-code input system that works with any app by synthesizing keystroke events (easy) could be benefinicial to users with physical impairments. How does it compete with Graffiti? It should have the huge advantages only requiring one hand and leaving the eyes free.
Categories | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - How does tactile feedback help people who are visually impaired? What can we do with a $20 game pad with rumble feedback? What does wireless capability add? Work with products like the Logitech Wingman Rumblepad and Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick to see what information they can provide to a user for games, exploration, navigation, etc.
Categories | Disabilities: Visual | Interfaces: Auditory | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - In most NC public schools the kids go to computer lab at least once per week. The sighted kids use interactive story books (click on the picture something interesting happens), ordinary games, and math tutor programs. The blind kids have NOTHING to do! Using commodity PC (or Apple) hardware, spatial sound, and force-feedback (haptic) devices like the Microsoft Force-feedback Joystick, make a game that is first fun, then maybe educational. Check out http://drive.soundsupport.net/ for an example of a driving game for blind people. "Adventure" (http://www.adventurecollective.com/index.shtml) might be an interesting game to adapt. Multi-player games could be really cool. What would "The Sims" be like for blind people? How about "Pac Man" or "Break Out"? There a lots of possibilities here for games addressing different age groups and objectives.
Categories | Disabilities: Visual | Interfaces: Auditory | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices | Information visualization: Maps and diagrams | Social impact: Education |
Description - BATS is a project at UNC that uses audio and tactile feedback to convey map information to blind users. It focuses on helping students with visual impairments.
Submitted by Peter Parente
Categories | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Telephone | Communication: Internet |
Description - Universal / accessibility design principles and products.
Submitted by Suzanne Vogel
Categories | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Internet |
Description - This site contains a database of over 19,000 currently available assistive devices/products.
Submitted by Jeremy Cribb
Categories | Disabilities: Visual | Information visualization: Maps and diagrams | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - News article about a tactile display for computer images developed by NIST.
Submitted by Fred Brooks
Categories | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Internet |
Description - Describes how to setup Linux accessibility features
Submitted by Dorian Miller
Categories | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Internet |
Description - An alternative input device requiring only tilting.
Submitted by Gary Bishop
Categories | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - An alternative input method involving measuring tilt.
Submitted by Gary Bishop
Categories | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - A proposed Tactile Display for handheld devices. Might be really itneresting for portable maps and such for people who are blind.
Submitted by Gary Bishop
Categories | Disabilities: Visual | Interfaces: Visual | Interfaces: Auditory | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices | Information visualization: Text | Information visualization: Maps and diagrams | Information visualization: Rendering |
Description - This site has lots of information about orientation and mobility. Among other things, there is an entire book on teaching orientation and mobility to kids and a "living" book in progress about assistive technologies for wayfinding.
Submitted by Andrew Raij
Categories | Disabilities: Physical | Interfaces: Devices |
Description - A project that uses the location of one's nose as an input device.
Submitted by Peter Parente
Categories | Disabilities: Visual | Interfaces: Auditory | Interfaces: Tactile | Interfaces: Devices | Communication: Telephone |
Description - A combination PDA/Phone that uses braille and speech output. No visual display at all.
Submitted by Andrew Raij