Menu Controller: Making Existing Software More Accessible for People with Motor Impairments
Isaac Paquette(link is external), Christopher Kwan and Margrit Betke(link is external)
{ paquette, ckwan, betke } @ cs.bu.edu
Image and Video Computing Group(link is external), Computer Science Department(link is external), Boston University(link is external)
Menu Controller is a tool that allows people with severe motor impairments who cannot use their hands to operate a mouse or keyboard to access menu items in existing Windows applications. It is designed for use with the Camera Mouse(link is external), software that allows you to control the mouse pointer by moving your head in front of a web camera. Using Menu Controller and Camera Mouse(link is external), users can access functionality from existing applications from a more easily accessible user interface.
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/menucontroller(link is external)
Original code (now archived): https://code.google.com/archive/p/menucontroller(link is external)
Contributing
Contribute to Camera Canvas by creating a fork of the repository, making changes there, and then submitting pull requests. For more information, see:
Downloads
- Menu Controller (accessibility tool) [Windows](link is external) [Last Updated: 05/26/2011]
- Camera Mouse (mouse control software) [Windows](link is external)
Papers
- I. Paquette, C. Kwan, and M. Betke. "Menu Controller: Making Existing Software More Accessible for People with Motor Impairments." The 4th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2011), Crete, Greece. May 2011. In press. [pdf(link is external)]
- I. Paquette, C. Kwan, and M. Betke. "Menu Controller: Making Existing Software More Accessible for People with Motor Impairments." Department of Computer Science Technical Report BUCS-2011-009, Boston University. March 2011. [pdf(link is external)]
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.