Simulating HCI for all

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• Pradipta Biswas, Rainbow Group
• Thursday 27 September 2007, 14:15-15:00
• Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Peter Robinson.

Computers offer valuable assistance to people with physical disabilities. However designing human-computer interfaces for these users is complicated. The range of abilities is more diverse than for able-bodied users, which makes analytical modelling harder. Practical user trials are also difficult and time consuming. We are developing a simulator to help with the evaluation of assistive interfaces. It can predict the likely interaction patterns when undertaking a task using a variety of input devices, and estimate the time to complete the task in the presence of different disabilities and for different levels of skill. In this talk I shall present the detailed design of different components of the simulator and a prototype of its implementation.

This talk is part of the Rainbow Interaction Seminars series.

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• Human-Computer Interaction
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