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Innovative software for hand functioning

Published: May 18, 2010

Jacob Wobbrock, a doctoral student from the Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer
Interaction Institute, created assistive technology software called
EdgeWrite. This software helps people with disabilities, specifically people
with shaky hands and tremors, to draw characters on the computer screen and
have the program translate them into words.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.disaboom.com/computer-technology/hand-tremors-shaky-hands-on-your-computer?IADID=Feature_wk76

Links:
Edgewrite
http://depts.washington.edu/ewrite/

Tampere Unit for Human-Computer Interaction
http://www.cs.uta.fi/hci/

Jacob Wobbrock
http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/
http://www.washington.edu/home/peopledir/?method=mail&term=wobbrock

Personalized Adapted Interfaces
http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/talks0607/kgajos_0607.pdf

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