[games_access] For Your Eyes Only

[Thomas Westin]

hey that's a nice presentation of a great concept, would be great to  
include on the GA-SIG DVD for GDC,
John, do you have contact with them somehow, or someone else on this  
list?
/Thomas

On 19 jul 2008, at 23.12, Reid Kimball wrote:

> This is excellent work, I'm glad someone proved that customizing UI
> can improve user experiences. The video I found on the site was really
> helpful for understanding what they did,
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/supple/media/supple-abilities-hd-streaming-best.mov
>
> I'll be on the look out for videogames that provide tests for players
> and automatically tweak settings based on the results. I think some
> have done this for mouse sensitivity. I know in Halo3, there is a test
> at the start of the game where it asks you to use your right analog
> stick to look up and down. If you mess up and move the stick in the
> opposite directions, it will automatically invert the y-axis controls
> to suit your behavior.
>
> I'll be sending this to my UI artist friends in the industry to give
> them food for thought.
>
> -Re
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:38 PM, John Bannick <jbannick at 7128.com>  
> wrote:
>> Barrie et al,
>>
>> Here's something new you might be interested in.
>>
>> "Off-the-shelf designs are especially frustrating for the disabled,  
>> the
>> elderly and anybody who has trouble controlling a mouse. A new  
>> approach to
>> design, developed at the University of Washington, would put each  
>> person
>> through a brief skills test and then generate a mathematically-based
>> version of the user interface optimized for his or her vision and  
>> motor
>> abilities. A paper describing the system, which for the first time  
>> offers
>> an instantly customizable approach to user interfaces, was  
>> presented today
>> in Chicago at a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of
>> Artificial Intelligence."
>>
>> The full story is at: http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42817
>>
>> John Bannick
>> 7-128 Software
>>
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