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  • An experimental sound-based hierarchical menu navigation system for visually handicapped use of graphical user interfaces

    Arthur I. Karshmer, P. Brawner, G. Reiswig · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper addresses the accessibility crisis created by the shift from character-based computer interfaces to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the early 1990s. The authors note that earlier text-based systems were well-served by assistive technologies like screen readers,…

    GUI accessibility · sonification · auditory interface · blind and low vision · menu navigation

  • Using the Baby-Babble-Blanket for infants with motor problems: an empirical study

    Harriet J. Fell, Hariklia Delta, Regina Peterson, Linda J. Ferrier, Zebra Mooraj, Megan Valleau · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper presents the Baby-Babble-Blanket (BBB), a patented assistive device designed for infants with severe motor problems who are at risk of developing learned helplessness due to their inability to control their environment or communicate. The BBB consists of a…

    early intervention · motor disability · cerebral palsy · infant development · switch access

  • An overview of programs and projects at the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center

    David L. Jaffe · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper provides an overview of the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center (RR&D), a federal laboratory at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center dedicated to developing assistive technologies for disabled veterans. With approximately fifty researchers across mechanical,…

    rehabilitation engineering · technology transfer · spinal cord injury · deafblindness · wheelchair accessibility

  • EEG as a means of communication: preliminary experiments in EEG analysis using neural networks

    Charles W. Anderson, Saikumar V. Devulapalli, Erik A. Stolz · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper explores the use of electroencephalography (EEG) as a communication channel for paralyzed individuals, representing early brain-computer interface (BCI) research. The core premise is that if distinct mental states can be reliably identified through EEG pattern…

    brain-computer interface · electroencephalography · neural network · machine learning · paralysis

  • Validation of a keystroke-level model for a text entry system used by people with disabilities

    Heidi H. Koester, Simon P. Levine · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper develops and validates a keystroke-level model (KLM) to predict how much word prediction software improves text generation rates compared to letter-by-letter typing for users with and without disabilities. The keystroke-level model, originally proposed by Card, Moran,…

    text entry · word prediction · keystroke-level model · spinal cord injury · usability

  • Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) on the electronic highway

    Sheryl Burgstahler, Dan Comden · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper describes DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology), a National Science Foundation-funded project based at the University of Washington's College of Engineering. DO-IT was designed to recruit and retain students with disabilities into…

    STEM accessibility · STEM education · digital divide · disability employment · internet accessibility

  • Providing access to graphical user interfaces — not graphical screens

    W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Kathryn Stockton · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper argues that screen readers for graphical user interfaces should provide access to application interfaces at the semantic level rather than merely translating graphical screen contents. The authors from Georgia Tech's GVU Center identify three levels of interface…

    GUI accessibility · screen readers · accessibility API · blind and low vision · auditory interface

  • Multimedia dictionary of American Sign Language

    Sherman Wilcox, Joanne Scheibman, Doug Wood, Dennis Cokely, William C. Stokoe · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper describes the Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language (MM-DASL), a Macintosh application functioning as a bilingual ASL-English dictionary that presents signs in full-motion digital video using Apple's QuickTime technology. The project, funded by the National…

    sign language · deaf accessibility · multimedia · dictionary · American Sign Language

  • Increasing access to information for the print disabled through electronic documents in SGML

    Bart Bauwens, Jan Engelen, Filip Evenepoel, Chris Tobin, Tom Wesley · 1994 · Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

    This paper describes work by the CAPS Consortium (Communication and Access to Information for People with Special Needs), an EU-funded project, and ICADD (International Committee on Accessible Document Design) to build accessibility into SGML (Standard Generalized Markup…

    document accessibility · SGML · structured documents · print disability · braille

  • Presenting Information in Sound

    Sara Bly · 1982 · Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

    Sara Bly's 1982 CHI paper, written at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is one of the earliest systematic investigations of using computer-generated sound — rather than graphics — to present multivariate data to human analysts. Bly opens by arguing that purely visual…

    sonification · auditory display · data visualization · multivariate data · non-visual interaction

  • The Intelligent Voice-Interactive Interface

    Christopher Schmandt, Eric A. Hulteen · 1982 · Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '82)

    Schmandt and Hulteen describe the 'Put That There' system built at MIT's Architecture Machine Group (the precursor to the Media Lab), one of the earliest working implementations of a conversational, multimodal human–computer interface. Seated in a chair ten feet from a…

    speech recognition · voice interface · multimodal interaction · gesture recognition · historical

  • Human Diversity and the Choice of Interface: A Design Challenge

    Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff · 1981 · Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computer Systems (CHI '81), Part II: Human Interface and the User Interface

    Hiltz and Turoff report findings from a multi-year National Science Foundation-funded field trial of the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES), a pioneering computer-mediated communication platform built at the New Jersey Institute of Technology that by 1981 had hosted…

    user interface · computer-mediated communication · adaptive interface · personalization · novice vs expert