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JoyCap: an alternative to the joypad for motor impaired gamers

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Cristiano E. Ribeiro,

Fabrício F. de Faria,

Bianca de O. Pereira,

Adriana S. VivacquaAuthors Info & Claims

IHC+CLIHC '11: Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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Published: 25 October 2011 Publication History

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According to the 2000 census, 14% of the Brazilian population has some type of disability and at a worldwide level at least one out of ten suffer from this problem. Despite a growing interest on accessible interfaces, we have found few initiatives geared towards motor impaired individuals. Current joysticks, joypads and the latest motion sensing interaction devices aim at capturing the largest possible number of movements the human body can make. While these provide new possibilities for game control, they also alienate individuals who have motor disabilities. In this demo, we present JoyCap, a device to enable people with severe motor disabilities to engage in game play.

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IHC+CLIHC '11: Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

October 2011

55 pages

ISBN:9788576692560

General Chair:
Alex Sandro Gomes
UFPE (Brazil)
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Program Chairs:
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
PUC-Rio: Brazil
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J. Alfredo Sánchez
Universidad de las Américas Puebla: Mexico

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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Brazilian Computer Society

Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Published: 25 October 2011

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IHC+CLIHC '11: 10th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction

October 25 - 28, 2011

Pernambuco, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

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