{"title":"Effective requirements gathering for older adults","authors":"M. Rice, A. Carmichael","doi":"10.1145/1278234.1278237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1278234.1278237","url":null,"abstract":"Eliciting appropriate requirements from users is an important part of the software design process. However, increasing evidence suggests that for many groups of older people lacking the experience and familiarity with many aspects of new technology, this can be a particularly difficult issue to address. Further, this issue is critical in regards to novel and emerging applications that break away from the 'traditional' desktop/workplace interface domain, and reside more in the domestic/entertainment/leisure domain. Thus the challenge is to address user-requirements before they are implemented, and in doing so create more meaningful dialogue with potential older users about applications and devices that do not actually exist yet.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133657842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual sign animated pedagogic agents to support computer education for deaf learners","authors":"Benjaporn Saksiri, W. Ferrell, P. Ruenwongsa","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196158","url":null,"abstract":"In Thailand, there is a desperate need to improve the educational opportunities for deaf and hearing-impaired university-aged students. The research described herein is targeted at two aspects of this issue: 1) design and test a virtual sign animated instructional tool for the Thai sign language, and 2) investigate how instructors of university classes can most effectively teach deaf students and assess their performance, particularly by using this tool. Currently, I have completed a thorough review of the literature, constructed a 3-D human model that includes rudimentary facial expressions, and devised a framework to investigate the instructional process.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115128598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prototyping and evaluation of landcons: auditory objects that support wayfinding for blind travelers","authors":"R. Lutz","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196150","url":null,"abstract":"Sighted people use vision to quickly access a rich amount of information about their environment. Blind users are deprived of this information, which compromises their abilities both to understand their surroundings and to navigate within them. Alternative sensory information, such as sound or touch, is substituted for the missing stimulus [7]. This information supports navigation in the immediate vicinity, e.g., the location of obstacles and hazards, but does not provide the location of distant unique objects which sighted people often use as navigating landmarks. The opportunity exists to electronically augment a blind user's environment with information about distant landmarks, e.g., information that would allow a blind person to turn in a circle, listen to distant landmarks, and then proceed in a direction guided by a chosen landmark.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115986459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing cognitive supports for dementia","authors":"Joseph P. Wherton, A. Monk","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196155","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives an overview of a PhD programme focusing on the design of cognitive prostheses to support people with mild-moderate dementia in the home. The approach taken involves two main phases. The first phase explores the problems that need to be addressed, from the perspective of professional carers, patients, and informal caregivers. The second phase focuses on designing a cognitive support that can assist patients through a specific activity. This paper reports the findings from the first phase (exploring problems of dementia in the home), and describes plans for the subsequent designing phase.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115373170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing an assistive haptic framework for improving non-visual access to the web","authors":"Ravi Kuber","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196152","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing focus on user-centered design by HCI researchers and practitioners, it is perhaps ironic that the visually impaired community continues to encounter challenges when interacting with the Web. Access is believed to be improved through the use of haptic technologies. However, due to the limited availability of targeted haptic design guidelines, developers could arbitrarily select and map sensations, with little consideration given as to how the sense of touch could provide assistance to a blind user. Research aims to address the limitations associated with existing assistive technologies, by developing haptic feedback which provides both spatial and navigational assistance when accessing the Internet. This research aims to culminate in a haptic framework, for designers to reference when developing accessible solutions for the Web.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124577701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ViCRAM: visual complexity rankings and accessibility metrics","authors":"Eleni Michailidou","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196154","url":null,"abstract":"The World Wide Web (Web) has become the means of distribution and use of information by individuals around the world. However, access to this information by visually impaired people is limited due to the Web's visual complexity. ViCRAM is a project that will relate user's implicit understanding of Web page visual complexity with its layout. Eye tracking methods and knowledge acquisition techniques will be used to elicit sighted people's visual perception. During this project we will also determine whether pages that sighted users identify as visually complex are complex for visually impaired users as well, from a Web accessibility perspective. We aim to develop a heuristic framework that will be used for describing Web page's visual complexity and as guidelines for transcoding a Web page into a less visually complex and more accessible one.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127263959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding and supporting the use of accommodating technologies by adult learners with reading disabilities","authors":"Katherine Deibel","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196156","url":null,"abstract":"Developing computer accommodations for users with reading disabilities involves several challenges: diversity of needs, stigma risks, and self-advocacy issues. This paper proposes a two-fold approach to address these issues. First, participatory design with reading-disabled users will inform necessary directions for technology development. Second, to help individual users identify what accommodations can benefit them, intelligent software will be developed. This software will also aid in the configuration of the accommodations.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128052708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-layer dialog generation for non-visual web access","authors":"Y. Borodin","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196153","url":null,"abstract":"People with visual disabilities use screen-readers to browse the Web. The existing screen-readers have limited ways of presenting Web page content. I propose to turn non-visual Web browsing into a multi-layer mixed-initiative dialog-based interaction between users and computers. The suggested layers of dialog navigation are: basic screen-reading, DFS or BFS, and domain-specific. The support of adaptive dialogs is also planned. This research is aimed at improving and accelerating non-visual Web browsing for blind users.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126652771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A visio-haptic wearable system for assisting individuals who are blind","authors":"T. McDaniel, S. Panchanathan","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196151","url":null,"abstract":"Computer vision algorithms for visio-haptic information analysis, i.e., the conversion of visual data into haptic (tangible) features, can be utilized in wearable assistive devices for individuals who are blind. Touch is an important modality for individuals who are blind, but it is limited to the extent of one's reach. By estimating how an object feels from its visual image, we are able to overcome this limitation. This paper proposes a wearable assistive device to estimate haptic features from visual data to enable users to feel objects from a distance.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128147866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalized and adaptive navigation based on multimodal annotation","authors":"Thorsten Völkel","doi":"10.1145/1196148.1196149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1196148.1196149","url":null,"abstract":"Although much effort is spent in developing navigation systems for pedestrians, many users with special needs are mostly excluded due to a lack of appropriate geographical data such as landmarks, waypoints, or obstacles. Such data is necessary for computing suitable routes because the best route might not be the shortest or fastest one. In this paper, the concept of multimodal annotation of geographical data for adaptive and personalized navigation is described. Direct input by the user is combined with data derived from the observation of the user's LOM-Modality (Location, Orientation, Movement) to annotate geographical data. Based on this data and data åderived from other users of the same user group, suitable routes even in unknown territory can be calculated.","PeriodicalId":377435,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACCESS Access. Comput.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117113369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}