Evaluating the Performance of the Nomon Interface

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Evaluating the Performance of the Nomon Interface with Motor-Impaired Individuals

• IRAS ID

  299191

• Contact name

  Tamara Broderick

• Contact email

  tamarab@mit.edu

• Sponsor organisation

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Nomon is an open source interface designed to allow single-switch operation of computers and keyboards for individuals with motor impairments (e.g. patients with cerebral palsy, locked-in syndrome). The program adapts automatically to an individual's clicking ability; it allows a person who clicks precisely to make a selection quickly and a person who clicks imprecisely more time to make a selection without error.
  Nomon has yet to be tested with its target population. Therefore, we are planning a longitudinal study to assess the viability of Nomon as single-switch interface for users with severe motor impairments. We plan to recruit motor impaired participants for this longitudinal study, following them over the course of several sessions as they learn to use the interface. We will also follow participants as they use another text entry interface similar to those currently available—like Row-Column Scanning (RCS) interfaces—to serve as a baseline for comparison to Nomon. Upon completion of this study, we hope to have data to help understand the usefulness of Nomon as a single-switch communication interface.
  

• REC name

  West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  22/WM/0007

• Date of REC Opinion

  16 Sep 2022

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion