Description

This summer I will be working on a Google Chrome extension called PINATA (Pointing Interaction Notifications and AdapTAtions) designed to help individuals who experience problems accurately controlling a pointing device such as a mouse. This adaptive user interface (AUI) tool aims to be user-centered designed, as many interviews and studies have already been conducted in order to generate user preferences. Before me, this project was worked on Tejas Bhalerao, a master student at UMBC, under the guidance of Dr. Foad Hamidi and Dr. Amy Hurst. My goal this summer is to fix the many bugs PINATA has and to add specific features to the tool, such as adding data metrics pulled from the user's pointing performance, improving adaption techniques (the current adaption is zooming), and creating user profiles for the extension. I will be using (and learning) the languages JavaScript, PHP, CSS, and HTML for coding.

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