SGER: Collaborating with Children with Severe Disabilities in the Design of Eye-Controlled Software

SGER：与严重残疾儿童合作设计眼控软件

• 批准号: 0553117
• 负责人: Anthony Hornof
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0553117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Collaborating; Children; Severe; Disabilities

For people who have severe physical disabilities but retain control of their eyes, eye tracking may provide not merely a means to afford augmentative communication, but also a powerful and noninvasive opportunity for creative expression. Yet there have been few if any attempts to involve people with severe motor impairments as partners in participatory design projects to develop eye-controlled software to support creative expression, and the design space for eye-control of computers remains largely unexplored, so that most current eye-controlled software is limited to the user moving the mouse cursor with the eyes and looking at buttons to click on them. The PI believes other control and feedback techniques are needed to support a range of creative activities. The situation is arguably most acute with respect to young children who, because of severe physical impairments, are locked out of activities that are critical for creative, social, and emotional development, yet relatively little work has been done to explore and evaluate eye-controlled software for children with disabilities. In this project, the PI will explore how participatory design techniques can be extended to children who communicate primarily through their eye movements. He will seek ways to incorporate these children into the design process as users, testers, informants, and design partners, and will identify aspects of the process that can be reused for other applications and other user groups with severe disabilities. The PI will develop, deploy, and evaluate eye-controlled software systems that enable children with severe motor impairments to participate in creative activities that are currently not accessible to them. The project will specifically focus on the childhood activity of music making. The PI will confirm that the creative opportunities are successfully provided through quantitative and qualitative analyses. Broader Impacts: This interdisciplinary research will enrich the scientific underpinnings and invent new techniques for creative expression and computer-control with the eyes, with special emphasis on the needs of children with severe motor impairments, for whom the project will identify new accessibility opportunities and provide creative expression through participation in collaborative, team based design projects. This project will ultimately provide people of all ages with severe motor impairments with a means of engaging in artistic, educational, and communication pursuits that are currently out of reach.

对于那些有严重身体残疾但仍能控制眼睛的人来说，眼动追踪不仅可以提供一种增强沟通的手段，还可以为创造性表达提供一个强大而非侵入性的机会。 然而，很少有人尝试让有严重运动障碍的人作为参与式设计项目的合作伙伴来开发眼控软件，以支持创造性表达，并且眼控计算机的设计空间在很大程度上尚未开发，因此大多数当前的眼控软件仅限于用户用眼睛移动鼠标光标并查看按钮以点击它们。 PI认为需要其他控制和反馈技术来支持一系列创造性活动。 这种情况可以说是最严重的幼儿谁，因为严重的身体障碍，被锁定的活动是至关重要的创造性，社会和情感的发展，但相对较少的工作已经做了探索和评估眼控软件的残疾儿童。 在这个项目中，PI将探索如何参与设计技术可以扩展到主要通过他们的眼球运动进行交流的儿童。 他将寻求将这些儿童作为用户、测试人员、信息提供者和设计合作伙伴纳入设计过程的方法，并将确定该过程中可以重用于其他应用程序和其他严重残疾的用户群体的方面。 PI将开发，部署和评估眼控软件系统，使患有严重运动障碍的儿童能够参与目前无法参与的创造性活动。 该项目将特别关注音乐制作的童年活动。 PI将确认通过定量和定性分析成功提供了创造性机会。 更广泛的影响：这种跨学科的研究将丰富科学基础，并发明创造性表达和计算机控制的眼睛，特别强调对儿童的需要与严重的运动障碍，为他们的项目将确定新的无障碍机会，并通过参与合作，团队为基础的设计项目提供创造性的表达。 该项目最终将为所有年龄段的严重运动障碍者提供一种参与目前无法实现的艺术，教育和交流追求的手段。