Alexandros Gkigkolian Undergraduate Dissertation 2017/18

Designing a Web browsing interface for people with motor disabilities

Supervised by J.Barker

Abstract

The internet has become a necessary resource in our lives. Everyone should be able to access it. A number of people have difficulty using a computer because they are suffering from disabilities that prevent them from using traditional input devices. The aim of this project is to develop an application that will make it easier for those people to browse the Web. A variety of alternative input methods have been considered such as speech recognition, eye-tracking and brain-computer interfaces. The use of brain-computer interface is promising as they are the most accessible option by the majority of the target demographic. The application has to allow the user to perform basic web browsing activities such as clicking elements, scrolling pages and entering text. The implemented system, which consists of an element selection and text entry process, allows users to perform these tasks by only using a single input.