Imagine, Interact: Eliciting Accessible Interactions from Users with Motor Impairments via Imagined Input Devices
Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ovidiu-Ciprian Ungurean · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This paper reports an end-user gesture elicitation study with eleven participants with upper-body motor impairments - including spinal cord injury, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's, and traumatic brain injury - who were asked to imagine input devices…
motor impairment · gesture input · end-user elicitation · imagined devices · ability-based design