SweepSticks: an adaptive virtual mouse for people with neuromotor disorders

SweepSticks has been developed primarily to provide alternative mouse access to people with neuromotor disorders, especially those suffering from cerebral palsy. This tool enables the user to perform both mouse movements and clicks emulated by a software interface, which is controlled by some special hardware switches. It is also capable of adapting itself to the behavior of the user, which it does by tracing and recording the sequence of her or his mouse actions and subsequently providing relevant suggestions to her or him in the future. The field experiments carried out with real users suggest that the tool may be quite effective in serving most of the computer access needs of the user.