Accessible Goal Crossing Project
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.
People
- Morgan E Dixon
- Daniel S. Weld
Publications
- Enhanced Area Cursors: Reducing Fine Pointing Demands for People with Motor Impairments (2010)
- Exploring the design of accessible goal crossing desktop widgets (2009)
- The Angle Mouse: Target-agnostic dynamic gain adjustment based on angular deviation (2009)
- Goal crossing with mice and trackballs for people with motor impairments: Performance, submovements, and design directions (2008)
- A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments (2007)


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