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ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Hover or tap?: supporting pen-based menu navigation for older adults
Tablet PCs are gaining popularity, but many users, particularly older ones, still struggle with pen-based interaction. One type of error, drifting, occurs when users accidentally ...
Karyn Moffatt, Sandra Yuen, Joanna McGrenere
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Note-taker: enabling students who are legally blind to take notes in class
David Hayden, Dirk Colbry, John A. Black Jr., Seth...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The accessible aquarium: identifying and evaluating salient creature features for sonification
Informal learning environments (e.g., aquaria, zoos, science centers) are often inaccessible to the visually impaired. Sonification can make such environments more accessible whil...
Anandi Pendse, Michael Pate, Bruce N. Walker
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
What's new?: making web page updates accessible
Web applications facilitated by technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, and Flash use a considerable amount of dynamic web content that is either inaccessible or unusable by...
Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I....
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A user evaluation of the SADIe transcoder
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semant...
Darren Lunn, Sean Bechhofer, Simon Harper
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Brain-controlled finite state machine for wheelchair navigation
This proposal is about a brain-controlled electrically powered wheelchair. The system comprises a brain-computer interface based on steady-state visual evoked potentials and a pro...
Amir Teymourian, Thorsten Lüth, Axel Graeser,...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A3: a coding guideline for HCI+autism research using video annotation
Due to the profile of strengths and weaknesses indicative of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), technology may play a key role in ameliorating communication difficulties with this p...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Creating and evaluating a video vocabulary for communicating verbs for different age groups
Icons and digital images used in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) are not as effective in illustrating verbs, especially for people with cognitive degeneration or ...
Xiaojuan Ma, Perry R. Cook