Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Computer Science Theses Department of Computer Science 8-8-2006 Fuzzy Mouse Cursor Control System for Computer Users with Spinal Cord Injuries Tihomir Surdilovic Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_theses Part of the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Surdilovic, Tihomir, "Fuzzy Mouse Cursor Control System for Computer Users with Spinal Cord Injuries." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cs_theses/49 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Computer Science at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. i Fuzzy Mouse Cursor Control System For Computer Users with Spinal Cord Injuries A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2005 by Tihomir Surdilovic Committee: ____________________________________ Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang, Chair ____________________________________ Dr. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Member ____________________________________ Dr. Michael Weeks, Member ____________________________________ Dr. Yi Pan, Department Chair Date July 21st 2005 ii Abstract People with severe motor-impairments due to Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) or Spinal Cord Dysfunction (SCD), often experience difficulty with accurate and efficient control of pointing devices (Keates et al., 02). Usually this leads to their limited integration to society as well as limited unassisted control over the environment. The questions “How can someone with severe motor-impairments perform mouse pointer control as accurately and efficiently as an able-bodied person?” and “How can these interactions be advanced through use of Computational Intelligence (CI)?” are the driving forces behind the research described in this paper.