Developing dual user interfaces for integrating blind and sighted users

Savidis, Anthony; Stephanidis, Constantine

doi:10.1145/223904.223918

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“…The HOMER UIMS approach by Anthony Savidis and Constantine Stephanidis [22,23] develops dual user interfaces for the integration of blind and sighted. HOMER supports the integration of visual and non-visual interaction objects and their relationships.…”

Section: Related Tools For Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization for the Mind’s Eye

Baloian¹,

Luther²

2002

Software Visualization

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Abstract. Software visualization has been almost exclusively tackled from the visual point of view; this means visualization occurs exclusively through the visual channel. This approach has its limitations. Considering previous work for blind people we propose that complementing usual approaches with those techniques used to develop interfaces for non-sighted people can enhance user awareness of logical structures or data types using different perception channels. To achieve better comprehension, we deal with new or augmented interfaces built on top of standard systems for data visualization and algorithm animation. The notion of specific concept keyboards is introduced. As a consequence, modern information and learning systems can be designed in such a way that not only sighted but also blind users can navigate within these systems.

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Section: Related Tools For Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization for the Mind’s Eye

Baloian¹,

Luther²

2002

Software Visualization

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“…Updating or modifying them to accommodate the slightest user variation or preference entails re-engineering the user interface. Although an in-depth discussion of these shortcomings is beyond the scope of this paper (interested readers can refer, for example, to Stephanidis, 1995a and, it is important to note the following considerations. First of all, product-level adaptations introduce a programming-intensive approach towards accessibility, which increases the cost of implementing and maintaining accessible software.…”

Section: Early Focus: Product-and Environment-level Adaptationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These dimensions range from the characteristics and abilities of users, to characteristics of technological platforms, and to relevant aspects of the context of use (Stephanidis et al, 1998c). The concept of Dual User Interfaces* (Savidis and Stephanidis, 1995a) constitutes a ¢rst step in this direction, as it de¢nes a basis for``integrating'' blind and sighted users in the same working environment.…”

Section: Towards More Generic Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Stephanidis

2001

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

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Abstract. This paper discusses the contribution of adaptive techniques to Universal Access in Human^Computer Interaction. To this effect, the paper revisits the concept of Universal Access, brie£y reviews relevant work on adaptive techniques, and follows their application in efforts to provide accessibility of interactive systems, from the early, product-and environment-level adaptation-based approaches, to more generic solutions oriented towards Universal Access. Finally, the paper highlights some of the research challenges ahead. The normative perspective of the paper is that adaptive techniques in the context of Universal Access have the potential to facilitate both accessibility and high quality interaction, for the broadest possible end-user population. This implies the design of systems that undertake context-sensitive processing so as to manifest their functional core in alternative interactive embodiments suitable for different users, usage patterns and contexts of use. Such a capability needs to be built into the system from the early phases of conception and design, and subsequently validated throughout its life cycle.

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“…• Adaptability and adaptivity at the user interface This includes special I/O devices (e.g., macro mouse, Braille display, speech synthesizer), visual and non-visual interface objects, and associated interaction techniques (13,14).…”

Section: Scope Of Adaptability and Adaptivitymentioning

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Adaptable and adaptive information provision for all users, including disabled and elderly people

Fink

Kobsa

Nill³

1998

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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Due to the tremendously increasing popularity of the World-Wide Web, hypermedia is going to be the leading online information medium for some years to come and will most likely become the standard gateway for citizens to the "information highway". Already today, visitors of web sites are generally heterogeneous and have different needs, and this is likely to increase in the future. The aim of the AVANTI project is to cater hypermedia information to these individual needs by adapting the content and the presentation of web pages to each individual user. The special needs of elderly and disabled users are also partly considered. A model of the characteristics of user groups, individual users and usage environments, and a domain model are exploited in the adaptation process. One aim of this research is to verify that adaptation and user modeling techniques that were hitherto mostly used for catering interactive software systems to able-bodied users also prove useful for adaptation to users with special needs. Another original aspect is the development of a network-wide user modeling server that can concurrently accommodate the user modeling needs of several applications and several instances of an application within a distributed computing environment.

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Developing dual user interfaces for integrating blind and sighted users

Cited by 64 publications

References 4 publications

Visualization for the Mind’s Eye

Visualization for the Mind’s Eye

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Adaptable and adaptive information provision for all users, including disabled and elderly people

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