Colorblind gaming or: Table Tennis is impossibly hard!
Filed under: Culture, Features, BusinessAround one in ten males and one in two hundred females are unable to discern the difference between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. Like...
View ArticleDisabled gamer mods controller, wins at life
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals We consider it a hardship when we have to reach behind our entertainment center every sixth months to plug in the Wii, but PlayStation boards user...
View ArticleReport: Industry missing out on revenue from aging, disabled gamers
According to a report coauthored by the Able Gamers Foundation and 7-128 Software, the game industry is losing out on up to $3 billion in revenue by failing to cater to older or disabled gamers. The...
View ArticleWii Balance Board used to create motorized baby buggy
Filed under: Weird But True, Opinions, New In Pop Culture Researchers from Ithaca College recently created an incredibly neat device to give a bit of mobility to babies who suffer from disabilities...
View ArticleValve expresses interest in eye tracking, improving experience for able and...
Valve is no stranger to experimenting with new ways of communicating and tracking data within games. Whether it's something as simple as closed captioning and customizable controls, or something a bit...
View ArticleVisceral Games hears disabled gamer, adding customizable controls to Dead...
Spooky cathedrals, fun technology and lots of slimy necromorphs to dismember at will -- is there anything else you could possibly want in Dead Space 2? Well, Gareth Garratt, a gamer living with...
View ArticleIndie studio Almost Human is more human than most
Yesterday morning, Juho Salila went to work as usual, expecting to streamline the graphics and build a few monsters for Legend of Grimrock, Almost Human's imminent dungeon crawler. He sat down, booted...
View ArticleFIFA 13 is AbleGamers' 'Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year'
The AbleGamers Foundation continues to spearhead the charge for greater accessibility in modern game design, and just as it did last year, the organization has taken it upon itself to determine which...
View ArticleAbleGamers summer grants offer funds for assistive gaming tech
AbleGamers and Minicore Studios, the developer of coming space-dog adventure game Laika Believes, are teaming up to offer grants to purchase assistive gaming technology to players with disabilities....
View ArticleIndie studio Almost Human is more human than most
Yesterday morning, Juho Salila went to work as usual, expecting to streamline the graphics and build a few monsters for Legend of Grimrock, Almost Human's imminent dungeon crawler. He sat down, booted...
View ArticleNintendo, NTT DoCoMo testing DS-powered speech translator
Nintendo and NTT DoCoMo are reportedly teaming up in order to create a voice-to-text system that'll help hearing-impaired children study. Using a modified DSi, speech is converted into text which is...
View ArticleMagnetic retainer lets you operate machinery with your tongue, gives...
Many people with debilitating conditions rely on sip and puff technology to get around, which is relatively lo-fi by some standards. Now, a special retainer with magnetic sensors could bring mobility...
View ArticleAndroid devs: if you can't use your app with your eyes closed, open them and...
Google's doing a lot to bolster its Android developers guide at the moment, with fresh design tips we covered yesterday and then a new section on accessibility arriving shortly after. The latter...
View ArticleQuadriplegic player establishes resource beachhead for other disabled gamers
Could you play World of Warcraft if you were totally blind? What if you were legally blind and suffered from progressive hearing loss, too? Or let's say you could see and hear just fine, but you...
View ArticleEyeRing finger-mounted connected cam captures signs and dollar bills,...
Ready to swap that diamond for a finger-mounted camera with a built-in trigger and Bluetooth connectivity? If it could help identify otherwise indistinguishable objects, you might just consider it....
View ArticleBlindsquare uses Foursquare data to guide the visually impaired
Blindsquare is giving guidance systems for the visually disabled a new twist with user-generated Foursquare data, text-to-speech, GPS and some OpenStreetMap mojo. While users are out and about, the...
View ArticleResearchers use off-the-shelf parts to let you write emails with your eyes...
There's a lot of research to help the spinal cord or stroke-injured become more self-sufficient, but it often takes some exotic paraphernalia. To buck that trend, scientists from Imperial College...
View ArticleBen Heck creates hands-free wheelchair attachment for expectant father
Ben Heck may have cut his teeth on hacked gaming consoles, but these days, the modder-turned-show-host has turned a good deal of his focus to projects aimed at improving accessibility and mobility for...
View Article"Guide Dog" player and sightless guild-mate honored with in-game items
Back in January, Lisa Poisso posted a touching story about two players, Hexu, an enhancement shaman played by British Army soldier Ben Shaw, who, while serving in Iraq, was involved in an incident...
View ArticleAccess4Kids input device allows disabled children to control touch-centric...
The innovation world at large has been crafting ways for handicapped individuals to interact with computers for years on end, but the issue of tablets has created another predicament entirely. How do...
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