The e-Lite research group will participate to the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), one of the most important conference in the field of human-computer interaction. The 2016 edition will take place in San Jose, California, USA, from the 7th to the 12th of May.

Luigi De Russis will present a late-breaking work on Monday and Tusday (May 9-10) about an evaluation of alternative GNomon widgets. The work, entitled Clocks, Bars and Balls: Design and Evaluation of Alternative GNomon Widgets for Children with Disabilities, is in the Accessible Game domain and builds upon our previous effort in GNomon, a framework for creating dynamic one-switch video games.
The paper proposes a parallel between three different widgets specifically designed for GNomon-based interfaces and aimed at children with physical impairments that also have cognitive disabilities. Each widget employs metaphor in a different way and it has been evaluated with six children with motor and cognitive disabilities. The results are encouraging: a widget, based on the "big and small" concept, is preferred by children and, therefore, is a candidate to make single-switch games easier to approach.