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Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis

Conference Proceeding
Hwang, F., Keates, S., Langdon, P., & Clarkson, J. (2004)
Mouse movements of motion-impaired users: a submovement analysis. In J. A. Jacko, & A. Sears (Eds.), ASSETS 04 : the Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 102-109. https://doi.org/10.1145/1028630.1028649
Understanding human movement is key to improving input devices and interaction techniques. This paper presents a study of mouse movements of motion-impaired users, with an aim...

Inclusive design: A balance between product demands and user capabilities

Conference Proceeding
Clarkson, P. J., & Keates, S. (2003)
Inclusive design: A balance between product demands and user capabilities. In ASME 2003 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference: 15th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, 575-584. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2003/DTM-48653
The world population is aging and the number of people who are experiencing a loss of functional capability is also on the increase. There is a need to design ?inclusive? prod...

Investigating the Cursor Movement Parameters for Haptic Assistance of Motion-impaired Users

Conference Proceeding
Langdon, P., Hwang, F., Keates, S., Clarkson, P. J., & Robinson, P. (2001)
Investigating the Cursor Movement Parameters for Haptic Assistance of Motion-impaired Users. In M. Mokhtari (Ed.), Integration of Assistive Technology in the Information Age: ICORR '2001, 7th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 237-242
Following a pilot study that suggested that force-feedback gravity wells could, under certain conditions, lead to 20- 50% improvements in time to target in a selection task, a...

Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties

Conference Proceeding
Keates, S., & Varker, P. (2007)
Establishing design best practices for users with cognitive and learning difficulties. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction. Coping with Diversity: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Part I, 706-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_78
In many respects, cognitive difficulties and learning impairments are the poor relation of Universal Access (UA) research. Research into emotional impairments is even less com...

A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing

Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, A., Yadav, P., Upadhyay, C. K., Corney, J. R., Vasantha, G. A., Jagadeesan, A., & Lynn, A. (2015)
A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing. In Technological Innovation in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR), 2015 IEEE, 33-39. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2015.7358527
Packing problems on its current state are being utilized for wide area of industrial applications. The aim of present research is to create and implement an intelligent system...

Improving accessibility in the workplace: manual data entry in video coding

Conference Proceeding
Coy, J., Keates, S., & Clarkson, P. J. (2001)
Improving accessibility in the workplace: manual data entry in video coding. In (. O. M. E. IMechE (Ed.), Mail Technology: Evolution to e-Revolution, 201-210
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Cognitive impairments, HCI and daily living

Conference Proceeding
Keates, S., Kozloski, J., & Varker, P. (2009)
Cognitive impairments, HCI and daily living. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity. 5th International Conference, UAHCI 2009, Proceedings, Part I, 366-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02707-9_42
As computer systems become increasingly more pervasive in everyday life, it is simultaneously becoming ever more important that the concept of universal access is accepted as ...

Perception and haptics: towards more accessible computers for motion-impaired users

Conference Proceeding
Hwang, F., Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P. J., & Robinson, P. (2001)
Perception and haptics: towards more accessible computers for motion-impaired users. In Proceedings of the 2001 workshop on Perceptive user interfacehttps://doi.org/10.1145/971478.971507
For people with motion impairments, access to and independent control of a computer can be essential. Symptoms such as tremor and spasm, however, can make the typical keyboard...

eHealth and the internet of things

Conference Proceeding
Ball, L., Szymkowiak, A., Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Brownsell, S. (2013)
eHealth and the internet of things. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, 139-142. https://doi.org/10.5220/0004336701390142
To respond to an ageing population, eHealth strategies offer significant opportunities in achieving a balanced and sustainable healthcare infrastructure. Advances in technolog...

An efficient transformation method for DFRM expansions.

Conference Proceeding
Xu, H., Yang, M., Wang, L. Y., Tong, J. R., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2007)
An efficient transformation method for DFRM expansions. In 7th International Conference on ASIC, 2007. ASICON '07, 1158-1161. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASIC.2007.4415839
Dual Form of Reed-Muller (DFRM) expansions with fixed poarity are derived from Reed-Muller (RM) expansions by using the operation of Kronecker matrix products. An efficient de...