Student Projects

This is a list of student projects that Alistair Edwards has supervised in recent years.

A complete list is available on the Department's website

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2010 Using a chatbot to raise awareness of internet privacy Richard Farnworth PDF (PDF) 
2010 Development of An Audio Museum Tour for Visually Impaired Visitors W. Wang PDFPDF
2010 Colour scheme preference and legibility on small screen portable devices Iain Cooke PDFPDF
2010 Future-proofing of archives Yu Lin ZIPZIP
2010 What does badness sound like? P. Carballude-Gonzalez PDFPDF
2010 Design and evaluation of an interface for finding and opening documents Felipe Morandeira PDF (PDF)  
2010 Cultural dependence of colour preferences on web sites Larry Phillips PDFPDF
2010 User Tagging of a Tactile Image Database Balakumar Varatharajan PDFPDF
2010 Design of a website with user-generated content for novice users Jiamin Wu PDFPDF  
2009 Improving the Usability of a Tool for Producing Audio-Tactile Guides for Visually Impaired People Alice Bartlett Click for a PDF copy of Alice Bartlett's report
2009 Reinventing the Wheel: Investigation of Alternative Steering Input Devices Mohit Dutta Click for a PDF copy of Mohit Dutta's report
2009 Evaluation of a rhythm based user authentication system for mobile devices Chris Northwood Click for a PDF copy of Chris Northwood's report
2009 Development of a website to promote awareness of green chemistry and floor coverings Evanthia Triantafillopoulou PDFPDF
2009 Development of an on-line database of tactile graphics W. Wang PDFPDF
2008 Implementation of a novel secure access mechanism for Windows Mobile Mark Jolley PDFPDF
2008 An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Auditory Road Warnings on Driver Behaviour using a Driving Simulator Chris Cooper Click for a PDF copy of Chris Cooper's report
2008 Implementation of a novel secure access mechanism for Windows Mobile Mark Jolley Click for a PDF copy of Mark Jolley's report
2008 Development of personalized audio tours for visually impaired museum visitors Chen Li Click for a PDF copy of Chen Li's report
2007 The attraction of simple computer games: Why people play Solitaire?
Kai Chen
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2007 Let's Shop: An Exploration into the Feasibility of Collaborative Online Shopping
Nadia Zedan
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2007 Music Recommendation using Collaborative Filtering with Similarity Fusion
Richard Adams
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2007 Demonstrating the Feasibility of Software to Author Audio-Tactile Guides for the Visually Impaired
Matthew Burton
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2007 A Speech Prosthesis to enable Live, Humorous Performance by a Synthetic Actor
Richard Nguyen
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2007 Implementation of a Flash Game to Teach Climate Change Concepts to Children Baydr Earles PDFPDF
2006 A Simulation Experiment to Measure the Effect of Road Sign Density on Driving Behaviour
Chris Bianca
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2006 Towards a Cognitive Model of Contracted Braille Reading
David Clapham
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2006 Bounds Checking in C
Martin Tosney
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2006 Mobile Web Authoring
Chris Allan
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2005 Implementing Adaptations of C
Geoffrey Crossland
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2005 Sonitus
Adam Dady
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2005 Evaluation of soundgraphs produced using SKDtools for MATLAB
James Danielis
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2005 A Computer Simulation of Visual Impairments
Stephen Ratcliffe
2005 Design of a Sound Guide Interface for Visually Impaired Users
James Wood
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2004 Music Piracy – The Road to a New Business Model
Christian Backlund
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2004

Spelling corrector for URLs
Peter Baker
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2004 Inferring Musical Structures from MIDI Files for the Weasel Toolkit
Geoffrey Hester
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2004 A Comparison Between Initial Implementations of British WAP and Japan’s i-Mode: Factors of Japanese Cultural and Market Uniqueness
Oliver Hilton-Johnson
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2004
Evaluation of Computer Games Controllers
Richard Johnston
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2004 Investigation of Users’ Models of Audio Cassette Players
Pattaraporn Leedumrongwattanagul
Click for a PDF copy of Pattaraporn Leedumrongwattanagul's report
2004 Skill Development and Player Satisfaction in Computer Games
Philip Mackie
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2004 Fun in online shopping
Hitesh Madani
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2003 Precise Timing Data for the Use of a Single Button
Gautam Bhatnagar
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2003 An experimental assessment of the memorability of web addresses (URLs)
Antonio Cuerpo-Sanchez
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2003 Spoken text messages
Nandish Haria
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2003 The technology and psychology of passwords: Can a password be secure and memorable?
Alex Howell
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2003 Creating a Tool to Find Broken Web Links: No More 404
Keane Ingram
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2003 Rapid text correction
Thomas Morton
2003 Non-visual table access
Michèl Salim
2003 Auditory representation of DNA sequence alignments
Katie Tindall
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2002 Development of a manual for mouse-less access to Windows
Richard Williamson
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2002 Tools for creating and maintaining text-only web pages
Omid Afzalalghom
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2002 Why are text messages so popular?
Mark Ocock
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2001 Development of a graphical interface to an email filtering tool
Adam Thornburn
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2001 Providing web applications using VoiceXML for blind and visually impaired users
Adam Thornett
2001 Layout of a linguistically optimised layout for text entry on a phone keypad
Danny Byrne
2001 Does user-centred design create usable websites? A comparison of design methodologies
John Gibbard
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2001 An evaluation of human-computer interaction factors in deaf-hearing telephony
Beatrice H Khine
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2001 Measuring comprehension of a text compression algorithm for SMS
Alex Shenton
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2001 Creeping Featurism: Does newer version necessarily mean better solution?
James Tam
2001 Error rates and user perception in the operation of a single button
Jonathan Tuffin
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2001 Guidelines for ALT texts for auditory browsing
Philippa Woodcock
 
2000 Application of a methodology for the design of non-visual tables
Hugo van Kemenade
 
2000 Timing data for the use of a single button
Yanyu Li
 
2000 Developing a memory aid in the form of an assisted list maker: A case-based approach
Ian Livingstone
 
2000 Do people use icons?
Mark Richardson
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2000 A comparison of two approaches to Web access for blind users
Simon Thompson
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2000 Investigation of statecharts and simple human-machine interfaces
Di Wu
 
1999 Experiments to test differentiation of patterns for tactile human-computer interaction Doreen Magill  
1999 Implementation and evaluation of a proposed measure of musical ability for auditory interface testing
Fiona Pirie
 
1999 Rendering HTML tables non-visually for blind people
Joel Sinclare
 
1999 French collaborative research project
Christine Wood
 
1998 The white knuckle ride to physics learning
F. Byrne
 
1998 Icons at the interface: Great Expectations
Ann Conlon
 
1998 Lint for a blind writer
Richard Beesley
 
1998 Evaluation and user testing of a simple two dimensional screen reader system
John McLean
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1998 'Lining Up Keyholes': Investigating the feasibility of a hand-held system for patient visitations
Matthew Hunter
 
1997 WWW browsers for blind people
Ruth Hayward
 
1997 A telephone keypad for alphnumeric input
M. McLaughlin
 
1996 A Virtual Keyboard
P McKenzie
 
1996 Computer-Aided Learning to teach elementary arithmetic to blind children
Ian Hagen
 
1996 Recognition of document categories based on non-speech audio
Robin Mukherjee
 
1996 A Comparative Thesaurus: Designing a Computerised Set-Based Word Search Tool
Philippa Gee
1996 An Approach to Reproducing the Contents of an HTML File into a Navigable Audio Format
Serena Kidd
1996 An investigation and evaluation of hypermode on the Dolphin Apollo speech synthesizer: A system for increasing reading speed by the omission of selected words
Silvia Tancredi
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1995 Squash performance information recording system: The rapid capture of sports data
Bill Bell
 
1993 Automated Analysis of Text for blind people
A. English
 
1993 The Forgiving Shell
Richard Fleming
 
1993 A Hypertext Prospectus
PeterFlowers
 
1993 Gesture Input Using Neural Networks
Phil Harling
 
1993 An Evaluation of the Sound Graphing Program Soundgraph
C. Wood
 
1993 Optimising speed and accuracy of input
N. Wood
 
1992 Text Access for Blind People
Adrian Full
 
1991 Reading text tables for blind people
Steve Bufton
1991 A knowledge based approach to aid construction & interpretation of computer generated graphics for blind users
Jane Reid
 
1991 The design and implementation of an interactive graphics system with natural language interface, for visually handicapped users
Sarah Wilson
 
1991 Exam Setter's Tool
A. N. Baillie
 
1991 The Power Glove in Computer-Aided Hand/Arm Therapy
Gee Kay Wong
 
1990 Development of an Interactive Mouse
Richard Luff
 

Paper copies of all the reports are available for loan from the Departmental Library (Librarian is Ian Patrick, email ilp@cs.york.ac.uk)

Project proposals

These are the lists of projects that I have proposed year-by-year, from which students have selected. Some of which now appear above.

Accessing Windows without a mouse

Graphical user interfaces have made computer use much easier - for most people ...but this is not necessarily the case for people who cannot use a mouse for any reason, such as physical disability. Manufacturers have recognized this by making it possible to use the interface without the mouse, using keyboard-based interactions instead. However, this form of interaction is not necessarily very easy or intuitive and some people may need the benefit of a manual to find out how they can access all the features of the interface through the keyboard. Former undergraduate student, Richard Williamson, has written such a manual for Microsoft Windows, which is freely available on-line.

Please feel free to use the manual. Let us know how useful you found it and whether it can be improved.

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 17 November 2009