Camera Canvas: Image Editing Software for People with Disabilities

Christopher Kwan and Margrit Betke

{ ckwan, betke } @ cs.bu.edu

Image and Video Computing Group, Computer Science Department, Boston University

Camera Canvas is image editing software developed for people with severe motor impairments who cannot use their hands to operate a mouse or keyboard. It is designed for use with the Camera Mouse, software that allows you to control the mouse pointer by moving your head in front of a web camera. Using Camera Canvas and Camera Mouse, you can edit images and draw pictures just by moving your head!

Both programs are completely free. We are constantly working on making them better by incorporating feedback from our users. Please try our latest versions and let us know what you think!

Original website: http://cs-people.bu.edu/ckwan/cameracanvas

Original code (now archived): https://code.google.com/archive/p/cameracanvas

Contributing

Contribute to Camera Canvas by creating a fork of the repository, making changes there, and then submitting pull requests. For more information, see:

• GitHub Tutorial
• How to Fork a Repo

Downloads

• Camera Canvas (image editing software) [Windows] [Last Updated: 03/22/2011]
• Camera Mouse (mouse control software) [Windows]

Videos

• User Interface and Configuration Demo
• Photo-editing Demo
• Drawing Demo

Papers

• C. Kwan and M. Betke. "Camera Canvas: Image editing software for people with disabilities." In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2011), Orlando, Florida, July 2011. In press. [pdf]
• W.-B. Kim, C. Kwan, I. Fedyuk, and M. Betke. "Camera Canvas: Image Editor for People with Severe Disabilities." Department of Computer Science Technical Report BUCS-2008-010, Boston University. June 2008. [pdf]

Acknowledgements

This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants 0910908, 0855065, 0713229, 0093367. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.