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Theoretical and architectural support for input device adaptation

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Jennifer MankoffAuthors Info & Claims

CUU '03: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability

Pages 85 - 92

https://doi.org/10.1145/957205.957220

Published: 17 June 2002 Publication History

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The graphical user interface (GUI) is today's de facto standard for desktop computing. GUIs are designed and optimized for use with a mouse and keyboard. However, modern trends make this reliance on a mouse and keyboard problematic for two reasons. First, people with disabilities may have trouble operating those devices. Second, with the popularization of wireless communication and mobile devices such as personal data assistants, the mouse and keyboard are often replaced by other input devices. Our solution is a tool that can be used to translate a user's input to a form recognizable by any Windows-based application. We argue that a formal model of input is necessary to support arbitrary translations of this sort. We present a model, based on Markov information sources, that extends past work in its ability to handle software-based input such as speech recognition, and to measure relative device bandwidth. We also present our translation tool, which is based on our model, along with four applications built using that tool.

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Theoretical and architectural support for input device adaptation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI theory, concepts and models
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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CUU '03: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability

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DOI:10.1145/957205

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