Explore, Create, Annotate: Designing Digital Drawing Tools with Visually Impaired People

Mapping 20 years of accessibility research in HCI: A co-word analysis

“…The new motor themes for Decade 2 cluster C2 are 'blind and visually impaired', 'navigation', and 'wayfinding', and from cluster C6 are: 'auditory', 'web', 'text entry and manipulation', 'reading', and 'eye interaction'. These keywords are also closely linked to each other and can be seen in works directed at addressing the needs of the blind and visually impaired (Mack et al, 2021;Pandey et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2021;Kuber et al, 2007). Our findings show that the topic of 'blind and visually impaired' has evolved from being a general and broad topic with a rather underdeveloped prior body of works (Quadrant IV of the strategic graph in Fig.…”

A bibliometric analysis of research trends and advanced technologies in tactile graphics design

“…Indeed, the popularity of concepts such as inclusive design has increased significantly, as observed evident in recently published research concerning the needs of visually impaired people -including on tactile graphics. Generally speaking, such contemporary research is reflected in reviews on tactile graphics over the last decade: a significant increase in working solutions for tactile graphics production (e.g., Červenka et al, 2016;Watanabe et al, 2014), converting hand-drawn graphics (e.g., Takagi and Chen, 2014;Pandey et al, 2020), on touch-based accessible graphics (Butler et al, 2021), tactile cartography in the digital age (Cole, 2021), automatic creation of tactile graphics (Mukhiddinov and Kim, 2021), and automatic tactile maps generation (Wabiński and Mościcka, 2019), while the aesthetics of tactile graphic has also been discussed (Kent, 2019). The study proposes a living assistance system, which integrates object recognition, object extraction, outline generation, and braille conversion algorithms.…”

Tactile cartography in the digital age: A review and research agenda

“…As geospatial data are increasingly more detailed and become easier to obtain (Rice et al, 2013, describe a crowdsourcing approach to data collection), translation may prove to be a more commonly employed approach than transcription, in terms of both research and practical applications. Translation allows for a great deal more flexibility in terms of what is actually included on the map as well as the technology that could be used to make the map, as seen in Pandey et al (2020) who describe research on developing a system for allowing people who are B/VI to draw their own tactile maps using a stylus and tactile film. However, as I mention above, transcription systems that help automate tactile map production could prove to be vitally important in certain situations.…”