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March 15, 2005
How user friendly are your products?
posted by hdittmer at 7:58 AM
Ok, what about users with special needs? Imagine for a minute the frustration experienced by a person suffering from hand tremors trying to use a computer. So how do you deal with the mouse. The tremors these people experience can make next to impossible to do something as simple as pointing and clicking. Watching his uncle struggle with this problem prompted Jim Levine to develop the Assistive Mouse Adapter. This device uses technology similar to that used in a "steady cam" to filter out the tremors and enable these individuals effectively use the computer. Jim is a researcher with IBM. IBM is planning on partner with Montrose Secam of the UK to make these devices. So how can technology help you make your products accessable to users who would be otherwise excluded?

