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Evaluation of a Mobile Head-Tracker Interface for Accessibility

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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FaceMe is an accessible head-tracker vision-based interface for users who cannot use standard input methods for mobile devices. We present two user studies to evaluate FaceMe as an alternative to touch input. The first presents performance and satisfaction results for twelve able-bodied participants. We also describe a case study with four motor-impaired participants with multiple sclerosis. In addition, the operation details of the software are described.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by grant BES-2013-064652 (FPI) and project TIN2012-35427 by the Spanish MINECO, FEDER funding.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

    Maria Francesca Roig-Maimó, Cristina Manresa-Yee & Javier Varona

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

    I. Scott MacKenzie

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  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

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Roig-Maimó, M.F., Manresa-Yee, C., Varona, J., MacKenzie, I.S. (2016). Evaluation of a Mobile Head-Tracker Interface for Accessibility. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_63

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