Student Projects

Student projects that Alistair Edwards has supervised.

Projects 1999-2012

	Year	Title	Author	Fetch a PDF (may be zipped)  copy of the report
1	2012	Psychophysics of touch and non-verbal characterisation of physical objects	Theodoros Georgiou	(PDF)
2	2010	Using a chatbot to raise awareness of internet privacy	Richard Farnworth	(PDF)
3	2010	Development of An Audio Museum Tour for Visually Impaired Visitors	W. Wang	PDF
4	2010	Colour scheme preference and legibility on small screen portable devices	Iain Cooke	PDF
5	2010	Future-proofing of archives	Yu Lin	ZIP
6	2010	What does badness sound like?	P. Carballude-Gonzalez	PDF
7	2010	Design and evaluation of an interface for finding and opening documents	Felipe Morandeira	(PDF)
8	2010	Cultural dependence of colour preferences on web sites	Larry Phillips	PDF
9	2010	User Tagging of a Tactile Image Database	Balakumar Varatharajan	PDF
10	2010	Design of a website with user-generated content for novice users	Jiamin Wu	PDF
11	2009	Improving the Usability of a Tool for Producing Audio-Tactile Guides for Visually Impaired People	Alice Bartlett
12	2009	Reinventing the Wheel: Investigation of Alternative Steering Input Devices	Mohit Dutta
13	2009	Evaluation of a rhythm based user authentication system for mobile devices	Chris Northwood
14	2009	Development of a website to promote awareness of green chemistry and floor coverings	Evanthia Triantafillopoulou	PDF
15	2009	Development of an on-line database of tactile graphics	W. Wang	PDF
16	2008	Implementation of a novel secure access mechanism for Windows Mobile	Mark Jolley	PDF
17	2008	An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Auditory Road Warnings on Driver Behaviour using a Driving Simulator	Chris Cooper
18	2008	Implementation of a novel secure access mechanism for Windows Mobile	Mark Jolley
19	2008	Development of personalized audio tours for visually impaired museum visitors	Chen Li
20	2007	The attraction of simple computer games: Why people play Solitaire?	Kai Chen
21	2007	Let's Shop: An Exploration into the Feasibility of Collaborative Online Shopping	Nadia Zedan
22	2007	Music Recommendation using Collaborative Filtering with Similarity Fusion	Richard Adams
23	2007	Demonstrating the Feasibility of Software to Author Audio-Tactile Guides for the Visually Impaired	Matthew Burton
24	2007	A Speech Prosthesis to enable Live, Humorous Performance by a Synthetic Actor	Richard Nguyen
25	2007	Implementation of a Flash Game to Teach Climate Change Concepts to Children	Baydr Earles	PDF
26	2006	A Simulation Experiment to Measure the Effect of Road Sign Density on Driving Behaviour	Chris Bianca
27	2006	Towards a Cognitive Model of Contracted Braille Reading	David Clapham
28	2006	Bounds Checking in C	Martin Tosney
29	2006	Mobile Web Authoring	Chris Allan
30	2005	Implementing Adaptations of C	Geoffrey Crossland
31	2005	Sonitus	Adam Dady
32	2005	Evaluation of soundgraphs produced using SKDtools for MATLAB	James Danielis
33	2005	A Computer Simulation of Visual Impairments	Stephen Ratcliffe
34	2005	Design of a Sound Guide Interface for Visually Impaired Users	James Wood
35	2004	Music Piracy – The Road to a New Business Model	Christian Backlund
36	2004	Spelling corrector for URLs	Peter Baker
37	2004	Inferring Musical Structures from MIDI Files for the Weasel Toolkit	Geoffrey Hester
38	2004	A Comparison Between Initial Implementations of British WAP and Japan’s i-Mode: Factors of Japanese Cultural and Market Uniqueness	Oliver Hilton-Johnson
39	2004	Evaluation of Computer Games Controllers	Richard Johnston
40	2004	Investigation of Users’ Models of Audio Cassette Players	Pattaraporn Leedumrongwattanagul
41	2004	Skill Development and Player Satisfaction in Computer Games	Philip Mackie
42	2004	Fun in online shopping	Hitesh Madani
43	2003	Precise Timing Data for the Use of a Single Button	Gautam Bhatnagar
44	2003	An experimental assessment of the memorability of web addresses (URLs)	Antonio Cuerpo-Sanchez
45	2003	Spoken text messages	Nandish Haria
46	2003	The technology and psychology of passwords: Can a password be secure and memorable?	Alex Howell
47	2003	Creating a Tool to Find Broken Web Links: No More 404	Keane Ingram
48	2003	Rapid text correction	Thomas Morton
49	2003	Non-visual table access	Michèl Salim
50	2003	Auditory representation of DNA sequence alignments	Katie Tindall
51	2002	Development of a manual for mouse-less access to Windows	Richard Williamson
52	2002	Tools for creating and maintaining text-only web pages	Omid Afzalalghom
53	2002	Why are text messages so popular?	Mark Ocock
54	2001	Development of a graphical interface to an email filtering tool	Adam Thornburn
55	2001	Providing web applications using VoiceXML for blind and visually impaired users	Adam Thornett
56	2001	Layout of a linguistically optimised layout for text entry on a phone keypad	Danny Byrne
57	2001	Does user-centred design create usable websites? A comparison of design methodologies	John Gibbard
58	2001	An evaluation of human-computer interaction factors in deaf-hearing telephony	Beatrice H Khine
59	2001	Measuring comprehension of a text compression algorithm for SMS	Alex Shenton
60	2001	Creeping Featurism: Does newer version necessarily mean better solution?	James Tam
61	2001	Error rates and user perception in the operation of a single button	Jonathan Tuffin
62	2001	Guidelines for ALT texts for auditory browsing	Philippa Woodcock
63	2000	Application of a methodology for the design of non-visual tables	Hugo van Kemenade
64	2000	Timing data for the use of a single button	Yanyu Li
65	2000	Developing a memory aid in the form of an assisted list maker: A case-based approach	Ian Livingstone
66	2000	Do people use icons?	Mark Richardson
67	2000	A comparison of two approaches to Web access for blind users	Simon Thompson
68	2000	Investigation of statecharts and simple human-machine interfaces	Di Wu
69	1999	Experiments to test differentiation of patterns for tactile human-computer interaction	Doreen Magill
70	1999	Implementation and evaluation of a proposed measure of musical ability for auditory interface testing	Fiona Pirie
71	1999	Rendering HTML tables non-visually for blind people	Joel Sinclare
72	1999	French collaborative research project	Christine Wood
73	1998	The white knuckle ride to physics learning	F. Byrne
74	1998	Icons at the interface: Great Expectations	Ann Conlon
75	1998	Lint for a blind writer	Richard Beesley
76	1998	Evaluation and user testing of a simple two dimensional screen reader system	John McLean
77	1998	'Lining Up Keyholes': Investigating the feasibility of a hand-held system for patient visitations	Matthew Hunter
78	1997	WWW browsers for blind people	Ruth Hayward
79	1997	A telephone keypad for alphnumeric input	M. McLaughlin
80	1996	A Virtual Keyboard	P McKenzie
81	1996	Computer-Aided Learning to teach elementary arithmetic to blind children	Ian Hagen
82	1996	Recognition of document categories based on non-speech audio	Robin Mukherjee
83	1996	A Comparative Thesaurus: Designing a Computerised Set-Based Word Search Tool	Philippa Gee
84	1996	An Approach to Reproducing the Contents of an HTML File into a Navigable Audio Format	Serena Kidd
85	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
86	1995	Squash performance information recording system: The rapid capture of sports data	Bill Bell
87	1993	Automated Analysis of Text for blind people	A. English
88	1993	The Forgiving Shell	Richard Fleming
89	1993	A Hypertext Prospectus	PeterFlowers
90	1993	Gesture Input Using Neural Networks	Phil Harling
91	1993	An Evaluation of the Sound Graphing Program Soundgraph	C. Wood
92	1993	Optimising speed and accuracy of input	N. Wood
93	1992	Text Access for Blind People	Adrian Full
94	1991	Reading text tables for blind people	Steve Bufton
95	1991	A knowledge based approach to aid construction & interpretation of computer generated graphics for blind users	Jane Reid
96	1991	The design and implementation of an interactive graphics system with natural language interface, for visually handicapped users	Sarah Wilson
97	1991	Exam Setter's Tool	A. N. Baillie
98	1991	The Power Glove in Computer-Aided Hand/Arm Therapy	Gee Kay Wong
99	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.

• 1998-9
• 1999-2000
• 2000-1
• 2001-2
• 2002-3
• 2003-4
• 2004-5
• 2005-6
• 2006-7
• 2007-8
• 2008-9
• 2009-10
• 2010-11
• 2011-12
• 2012-13

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.

Links:

• The manual: Microsoft Windows without a mouse: An accessibility guide.
• An article on the manual, from Ability Magazine.
• The student project report, Development of a manual for mouse-less access to Windows

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10 April 2013