Computer Science

Simulation of motor impairment with "reverse angle mouse" in a head-controlled pointer Fitts' law task

Document Type

Conference Paper

Abstract

Testing software with individuals who have differing abilities such as motor impairments allows developers to create more accessible applications. Unfortunately, these individuals are not always available to assist with research or software development testing. To help address this issue, we propose a system which simulates the difficulties demonstrated by a motor-impaired user interacting with a head-controlled mouse pointer system. Through an evaluation using a Fitts' law experiment, we compare the throughput rate in bits per second and percent error rate of our system between users with and without motor impairments.

Publication Title

ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Publication Date

2019

First Page

545

Last Page

547

ISBN

9781450366762

DOI

10.1145/3308561.3354623

Keywords

accessibility, anglemouse, camera mouse, Fitts' law, head-controlled mouse pointer, motor impairments, simulation

APA Citation

Papy, M., Calder, D., Dang, N., McLaughlin, A., Desrochers, B., & Magee, J. (2019, October). Simulation of Motor Impairment With. In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 545-547).

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