Accessible Goal Crossing Project

http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/accessibility.html

The Accessible Goal Crossing Project is funded by the National Science Foundation as an effort to create user interfaces more suited to people with motor impairments by using goal crossing instead of pointing-and-clicking, which is difficult for many people. Although goal crossing has been investigated on pen and tablet computers for use by able-bodied users, it presents substantially different challenges when used on the desktop with cursor control devices by people with motor control problems. We are designing, building, and evaluating new widgets, design patterns, idioms, and metaphors. It is like the work done at Xerox PARC in 1975, only this time, there is no button on the mouse...

See our overview paper, a CHI 2009 work-in-progress publication.

Collaborators

Parmit K. Chilana
Eun Kyoung Choe
Morgan Dixon
Krzysztof Z Gajos
Kurt L. Johnson
Kristen Shinohara
Daniel S. Weld
Jacob O. Wobbrock

Publications

Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets Eun Kyoung Choe, Kristen Shinohara, Parmit K. Chilana, Morgan Dixon and Jacob O. Wobbrock Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Work in Progress (PDF)

The Angle Mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation Jacob O. Wobbrock, James Fogarty, Sean S. Liu, Shunichi Kimuro and Susumu Harada Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)

Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 2008. Journal Paper (PDF)

A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments Jacob O. Wobbrock and Krzysztof Z Gajos ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)