Simulation of Motor Impairment in Head-Controlled Pointer Fitts' Law Task
Syed Asad Rizvi, Ella Tuson, Breanna Desrochers, John Magee · 2018
Participants with motor impairments may not always be available for research or software development testing. To address this, we propose simulation of users with motor impairments interacting with a head-controlled mouse pointer system. Simulation can be used as a stand-in for research participants in preliminary experiments and can serve to raise awareness about ability-based interactions to a wider software development population. We evaluated our prototype system using a Fitts' Law experiment and report on the measured communication rate of our system compared to users without motor impairments and with a previously reported participant with motor impairments.