Abstract
This paper describes ICON, a novel editor designed to configure a set of input devices and connect them to actions into a graphical interactive application. ICON allows ‘power users’ to customise the way an application manages its input to suit their needs. New configurations can be designed to help physically challenged users to use alternative input methods, or skilled users — graphic designers or musicians for example — to use their favourite input devices and interaction techniques (bimanual, voice enabled, etc.).
ICON works with Java Swing and requires applications to describe their input needs in terms of ICON modules. By using systems like ICON, users can adapt more deeply than before their applications and programmers can easily provide extensibility to their applications.
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Dragicevic, P., Fekete, JD. (2001). Input Device Selection and Interaction Configuration with ICON. In: Blandford, A., Vanderdonckt, J., Gray, P. (eds) People and Computers XV—Interaction without Frontiers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0353-0_34
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