Paper Reading #23 - Evaluating the design of inclusive interfaces by simulation

Reference:

Pradipta Biswas, and Peter Robinson.

Venue: IUI '10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Summary:

This paper is about a simulator that will help in the design and testing of assistive interfaces.  The system can predict interaction patterns from a variety of input devices.  They present a study done to evaluate the simulator.  They considered a representative application being used by able-bodied, visually impaired and mobility impaired people.  The simulator predicted task completion times with high accuracy.

Discussion:

I think that this is an interesting system.  I have already read about a paper on a system to help with assistive interfaces, but I was intrigued that this was focused on the interfaces rather than actually providing assistance.  This system would be helpful when evaluating systems.