FastScanner: An Accessibility Tool for Motor Impaired Users

Ntoa, Stavroula; Savidis, Anthony; Stephanidis, Constantine

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_118

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“…The next version of the application should supports techniques that allow users with visual disabilities or motor impairments to control their smart home. Some main techniques are the remote controlled operation in combination with speech for visually impaired users or teleoperation by sighted users and scanning [26] (both manual and automated) for motor impaired users.…”

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Control smart homes easily with simple touch

Kartakis

Antona

Stephanidis³

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International ACM Workshop on Ubiquitous Meta User Interfaces

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments contain many smart artifacts and appliances that users can control automatically or manually. In the manual mode, user interacts with intelligent controllers, touch screens or mobile-phones to control electric and electronic appliances in the house. In the past few years, various research efforts have focuses on the creation of an abstract application that can control every appliance in the environment through smart controllers. This paper describes the Control Home Easily application that auto-generates user interfaces and allows users to manage easily home appliances of every room from inside or outside the home with various interactive units through simple touch. A web application has also been developed that can be run through mobile phones. These approaches help simple users to accept AmI technologies in the home environment and reduce the development time of a new smart artifact.

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Control smart homes easily with simple touch

Kartakis

Antona

Stephanidis³

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International ACM Workshop on Ubiquitous Meta User Interfaces

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“…The cluster scanning system does not introduce any new interface element like a frame or form in the screen as Autonomia [5] or FastScanner [3] systems do. The cluster scanning system does not blindly divide the screen in a predefined number of segments as the ScanBuddy [6] or block scanning systems do.…”

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Evaluating the Cluster Scanning System

Biswas¹,

Robinson²

2010

Designing Inclusive Interactions

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Abstract.Scanning is the technique of successively highlighting items on a computer screen and pressing a switch when the desired item is highlighted. We have developed a new scanning system for single switch input that works by clustering objects on the screen. This paper presents the underlying algorithm and reports on an evaluation study comparing it with a conventional block scanning system. Motor-impaired users found the cluster scanning system faster and more accurate than block scanning.

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“…Scanning is an interaction technique that enables motorimpaired users to have access to interactive applications and services [13]. The basic idea is that a special ''marker'' (e.g., a colored frame) indicates the interaction item that has the input focus.…”

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