Dear community, As a representation of the Handibox team, I'm writing to introduce Handibox, an application with a focus on people with physical motor problems.
Handibox has been developed at the University of Talca in the career of Civil Engineering in Bioinformatics by students and teachers and was inspired by Mousetrap, a discontinued GNOME software to control the mouse with your head. Also, Handibox uses some characteristics from applications already created by GNOME for accessibility to provide the user with a more comfortable experience in using the desktop. To use Handibox you only need a webcam (built-in or external). The application captures and recognizes the movements of the head to control the mouse. Internally, it uses the "click assist" (mouse tweak) function to simulate clicking and other GNOME characteristics (apps) like zoom, keyboard on screen, cheese. To make a good software with the best quality, it chose to use the iterative methodology that counts with the constant feedback of every user in all of their levels. Each level and iteration allow generating testing prototypes with the users and as a result, getting a final product developed and adjusted. The function of the Handibox software was directly validated with the students, teachers, kinesiologist, and parents of the "Especial Enseña" school in Talca Chile, that has been serving children with motor and mental disabilities for some years. This previous experience allows us to say that Handibox can also be used as physiotherapy because it induces the user to move their body to achieve the goals of the therapy. You can find the software at https://gitlab.gnome.org/fabioduran/handibox/ and all help for improvement and feedback are welcome, for example: how to make an integration with gnome-shell. We are looking for technical and non technical help and new ideas to improve Handibox. Best regards, Handibox Team Alejando Valdés-Jiménez (aval...@gnome.org) Fabio Durán-Verdugo (fabiodu...@gnome.org) Matías Rojas-Tapia (maroja...@alumnos.utalca.cl) Daniel Galleguillos (dan...@gnome.cl) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
