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Free Software Helps Disabled Use Mouse

Posted by Roblimo on from the everybody-needs-a-hand-sometimes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A University of Washington team has developed a piece of free software to help those with motor control problems do what most of us take for granted every day: use a computer mouse to get stuff done. The Pointing Magnifier combines an area cursor with visual and motor magnification, reducing need for fine, precise pointing. The UW team is actively seeking user feedback."

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  1. Seen it before by pbjones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    there may be something that I missed about this one, but I'm sure that I have seen the same or similar years ago. Might be already patented, time will tell.

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  2. I could have used this when I had a sprained wrist by sandytaru · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lack of fine motor control isn't totally limited to the elderly and the disabled. As a healthy thirty year old, I had issues using a mouse with my wrist splint on last month. Something like this would have probably been perfect.

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