KINECT wheels: wheelchair-accessible motion-based game interaction

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Channel: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 2014 · Science & Technology

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KINECT wheels: wheelchair-accessible motion-based game interaction

Authors:

Kathrin M. Gerling, Michael R. Kalyn, Regan L. Mandryk

Abstract:

The increasing popularity of full-body motion-based video games creates new challenges for game accessibility research. Many games strongly focus on able-bodied persons and require players to move around freely. To address this problem, we introduce KINECT Wheels, a toolkit that facilitates the integration of wheelchair-based game input. Our library can help game designers to integrate wheelchair input at the development stage, and it can be configured to trigger keystroke events to make off-the-shelf PC games wheelchair-accessible.

URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479609

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479609

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