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• Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads

  Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, Edmund F. LoPresti · 2004 · Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper presents two adaptations of EdgeWrite, a gestural text entry method originally designed as a stylus-based unistroke technique for people with tremor, reconfigured for use with power wheelchair joysticks and touchpads. The research addresses a significant gap in…

  text entry · motor accessibility · power wheelchair · joystick · touchpad

• Designing a Cognitive Aid for the Home: A Case-Study Approach

  Jessica Paradise, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Cliff Williams, John Goldthwaite · 2004 · Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper describes the design of a computational pacing aid for a woman ("C") with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) who struggles with chronic tardiness during her morning routine at a residential program. The researchers from Georgia Tech and Drexel University used an…

  cognitive accessibility · traumatic brain injury · cognitive aid · smart home · independent living

• The Ethnographically Informed Participatory Design of a PDA Application to Support Communication

  Rhian Davies, Skip Marcella, Joanna McGrenere, Barbara Purves · 2004 · Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper describes an ethnographically informed participatory design process for creating a PDA-based file management system to support communication for a person with aphasia. The research was conducted at the University of British Columbia with one primary participant, SM, a…

  aphasia · augmentative and alternative communication · participatory design · ethnography · mobile technology

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