The SteadyMouse Project

SteadyMouse is assistive software, designed from the ground up to be your fierce ally against the hand tremors that often accompany Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.

By detecting and removing shaking motion before it gets to your cursor, and by blocking accidental clicks, your entire mouse experience goes from a chaotic battle to an enjoyable reality!

Tremors may happen, but they should not steal your attention and peace of mind too. With SteadyMouse you can finally stop thinking about your mouse. It's got this for you!

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We have liftoff!

October 20th, 2016

Today I'm releasing SteadyMouse 2 to the world, and especially to all of you who asked over the years and patiently waited. I've put everything into this for you, and I know it's going to get many of you back on track. I can't wait for that part. Special thanks as well to my grandfather, Dr. James Gottemoller who started it all. This one's especially for you!

September 8, 2016 - After many late nights, the completely redesigned SteadyMouse 2 professional release is almost ready for launch! Hang tight...

September 12, 2016 - The beta version has rolled out to the first volunteer tester! Come join us as the initial results come in at the beta testing thread here on /r/steadymouse.

September 28, 2016 - Beta testing is going well and release is getting close! In the mean time, the new user manual is up and has a lot of the "nitty gritty" details for the more curious.

October 5, 2016 - The SteadyMouse 2 ship is really close to setting sail. It's down to one rare but major bug to fix (and test).

October 16, 2016

I recently learned that the old SteadyMouse v1.3 was featured in back-to-back trials in a publication to RESNA's Assistive Technology journal! It's amazing to see what has happened with SteadyMouse just by placing it on the internet.

I had no idea this even was occuring at the time! There's lots of fascinating data such as user cursor motion under various conditions and "Task Completion Times". Apparently SteadyMouse was up against an Adaptive Path B-Spline algorithm of some kind. Fun stuff and, from the pub's conclusion, it looks like the B-Spline method barely edged me out! I'd love to see a rematch with SteadyMouse 2!

You can see the RESNA publication here

Pax et bonum,
Benjamin Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

February 9, 2016

You all deserve a status update! The paid version of SteadyMouse is getting close. My ballpark guess is sometime in the next four months. The list of internal improvements alone is getting pretty large and I'm really excited to eventually share all the details with you. Everyone has been amazingly patient waiting for this overhaul. As a glimpse of things to come: Multimonitor support is perfect now. The on/off toggle key(s) are configurable. Filtering is going to allow even more aggressive levels. The visual-effects system will be beautiful and it will be smooth. From testing so far I know Windows 10 down to Windows XP will all work fine! Multilingual support will happen in a version or two. This is all off the top of my head. Eventually I'll post the full change log for those who love details.

There are so many changes.

I wish I could show off the internal architecture improvements. The internal design is finally clean, efficient, and elegant.

The old version 1.3 was put together quickly in a time before I knew how popular it would become. Now it's well past time for it to be done right and with much care. Thank you all for waiting so long. If you'd like an email when it's out, you can sign up here: Upgrade Notification Survey

Dominus vobiscum,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

December 21, 2014 (Updated)

SteadyMouse is ten years old this year! It has held up pretty well but an upgrade is needed. I'm also sure many of you would appreciate a few long-standing issues getting fixed. I want to do this and I know I can make it beautiful. Nevertheless, it's going to take me a lot of time and effort to bring the software into the current decade. As a compromise, the new version will have to cost something.

When SteadyMouse is ready I will send you the news. Just leave me your email using the form below.

December 20, 2010

Several years have gone by since a new version of SteadyMouse was last released, and you may be wondering what the status of the project is. The answer is that while I have not gotten around to making further updates, version 1.3 is still working very well. Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit) as well as Windows Vista are supported in addition to XP, 2000 & NT. Also know that I do have a bug list I'm maintaining, so any emails you've sent me regarding issues have not been lost. I hope to get to this someday, but have not found the time as of yet. Thankfully this list has remained pretty short, with only 11 items at the present time (mostly low impact). I appreciate all the emails from everyone who has found SteadyMouse to be an improvement to the heavy burden that they carry. These have been a great blessing to me and I am glad to have played a part in your lives. God willing, I will keep the site running for many more years so don't worry too much about SteadyMouse going away. In the mean time I will continue to try answering your emails in a timely manner.

Dominus vobiscum,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

March 23, 2006

SteadyMouse v1.3 is available for download! There are changes all across the board this time around. Most notably (with nearly as much code as all of v1.2) the new "Icon Targeting" system is in place and has gone through several rounds of testing. It takes some getting used to, but I think it's safe for me to promise that you'll smile the first time you see it activate :) As for everything else... I have absolutely lost track of all the changes, so rather than presenting you with a list, I'm giving you the go ahead to explore :) Don't worry, you won't break it (easily :P). Feel free to let me know what you think. SteadyMouse is built on feedback.

Cheers,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

November 29, 2005

I want to give a quick update on the status of things. Version 1.3 should be ready in the next two weeks. I'm fairly excited about the main feature in this release as it might even be useful to people without essential tremor. There's going to be sort of an an "Icon Targeting" system to help the user quickly home in on the item he wants to click. It auto detects the nearest icon in the window the cursor is over, and snaps the cursor to it with the press of a special key. I'm experimenting with a few other options that don't require a special key as well, but those are still a ways off. Check back in a bit.

Cheers,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

October 30, 2005

Version 1.2 is ready just in time for Halloween. This release is mostly just bug fixes, but some of them make quite a difference. You can read more about it at the downloads page. Anyway, I think this takes care of most of the major issues for the moment. Now I can get back to some of the new features :)

Cheers,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com

October 23, 2005

Hi there! This is the first public release of SteadyMouse. The reason it's starting at v1.1 is because there were about five prior versions that got tested on a (very patient) Grandparent. Hopefully this means most of the kinks are worked out by now, but if you do happen across something that isn't right I'd love to hear from you. Use ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com for comments, bugs, questions, and anything else. As of yet the system has only been tested on Windows 2000, and XP so if you run 95, 98, Me, or NT, and it totally doesn't work send me an email so I know about it.

Cheers,
Ben Gottemoller
ben-avoid-spam-bot-bit@steadymouse.com