Interaction can hurt - Exploring gesture-based interaction for users with Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain is a universal disorder affecting millions of people, influencing even the most basic decisions in their lives. With the computer becoming such an integral part of our society and the ever-expanding interaction paradigm, the need to explore potential computer interactions for people with Chronic Pain has only increased. In this paper we explore the used of gesture-based interaction as a medium with which these users can perform the base operations of computer interaction. We show that, for gestural pointing and selection, modeling users’ interaction space and multimodel interaction performed the best in terms of throughput.