Interactiles

Zhang, Xiaoyi; Tran, Tracy; Sun, Yuqian; Culhane, Ian; Jain, Shobhit; Fogarty, James; Mankoff, Jennifer

doi:10.1145/3234695.3236349

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Research works on 3-D-printed models with haptic interaction have also been reported. Reference [18] uses Android phones to enhance the tactile interaction on phones' touchscreens. This is achieved by the use of an application that maps the interactions with a previously printed hardware.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modular 3-D-Printed Education Tool for Blind and Visually Impaired Students Oriented to Net Structures

et al. 2023

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Contribution: This article presents the design, 1 creation, testing, and results after the use of a 3-D-printed edu-2 cational tool that helped a blind student learning electric circuits 3 theory in higher education. 4 Background: Educational tools oriented to visually impaired 5 and blind students in higher education are limited or even nonex-6 istent in the STEM area. Previous developments on the field 7 present in the literature, including other 3-D printing solutions, 8 have been revised and compared to the proposed educational 9 tool. 10 Intended Outcomes: The tool was tested by a blind student 11 in order to test the potential of the design to achieve a bet-12 ter understanding of the topology and performance of electric 13 circuits. The main purpose of the tool described in this work is 14 helping to increase the resources available in the field of teaching 15 students with visual impairments. 16 Application Design: 3-D technology has the potential to be 17 used to create accessibility tools for visually impaired and blind 18 individuals. Modular systems can be used to create complex 19 structures using simple elements. A modular 3-D-printed tool 20 was fabricated to help blind and visually impaired students to 21 learn net structures. 22 Findings: The 3-D tool has allowed the blind student to work 23 autonomously in the study of simple electric circuits and supplies 24 the teacher with a resource to communicate with the student in 25 an easy and fast way. Updated design can be used to describe 26 more complex net structures that can be applied to most electric 27 circuits despite their complexity. The use of the modular system 28 provided the blind student with a direct representation of the 29 whole subject, even when it involved a great amount of graphical 30 information and manipulation. 31 Index Terms-3-D printing, blindness, computer engineering, 32 design, higher education, prototyping, rapid prototyping (RP), 33 students with disabilities.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Modular 3-D-Printed Education Tool for Blind and Visually Impaired Students Oriented to Net Structures

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“…Interestingly, while the accessibility of photographs for BLV was largely investigated in terms of web accessibility [21,38], only three out of 33 papers aimed to support photographs using touchscreen devices in particular. In addition, as touchscreen devices themselves have accessibility issues for people with visual impairments, requiring accurate hand-eye coordination [26], four papers focused on improving the accessibility of the touchscreen-based interface itself such as soft buttons [39][40][41] and gestures [42].…”

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“…For example, Gotzelmann et al [23] used a 3D-printed tactile map. Zhang et al [41] also made user interface elements (e.g., buttons, sliders) with a 3D printer to improve the accessibility of touchscreen-based interfaces in general by replacing virtual elements on a touchscreen with physical ones. Moreover, Hausberger et al [56] proposed an interesting approach using kinesthetic feedback along with frictions.…”

Section: Interaction Typesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Image Accessibility for Screen Reader Users: A Systematic Review and a Road Map

Joh

Lee

2021

Electronics

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A number of studies have been conducted to improve the accessibility of images using touchscreen devices for screen reader users. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of 33 papers to get a holistic understanding of existing approaches and to suggest a research road map given identified gaps. As a result, we identified types of images, visual information, input device and feedback modalities that were studied for improving image accessibility using touchscreen devices. Findings also revealed that there is little study how the generation of image-related information can be automated. Moreover, we confirmed that the involvement of screen reader users is mostly limited to evaluations, while input from target users during the design process is particularly important for the development of assistive technologies. Then we introduce two of our recent studies on the accessibility of artwork and comics, AccessArt and AccessComics, respectively. Based on the identified key challenges, we suggest a research agenda for improving image accessibility for screen reader users.

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“…Over the last decade, numerous projects aimed at improving touchscreen interfaces, including understanding the performance of gestures [41], proposing new text input techniques [6,24,51,52], and leveraging Braille knowledge [4,58]. Other solutions took advantage of concurrent speech feedback [23], augmented touchscreens with physical interfaces [40,60,62] or haptic feedback [19,46]. Touchscreen devices have also been combined with computer vision-based solutions to create novel assistive technologies [26,27].…”

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confidence: 99%

Collaborative Tabletops for Blind People

Mendes

Reis

Guerreiro

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Fig. 1. Blind users collaborating on an interactive tabletop. Left: after receiving spatial audio feedback about her partners' findings, a user drags her finger to that location. Middle: a user found a relevant object for her partner, proceeding to grab and guide his hand to the object's position. Right: without knowing where their partners are exploring, the users experience unintentional physical contact. Interactive tabletops offer unique collaborative features, particularly their size, geometry, orientation and, more importantly, the ability to support multiuser interaction. Although previous efforts were made to make interactive tabletops accessible to blind people, the potential to use them in collaborative activities remains unexplored. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a multiuser auditory display for interactive tabletops, supporting three feedback modes that vary on how much information about the partners' actions is conveyed. We conducted a user study with ten blind people to assess the effect of feedback modes on workspace awareness and task performance. Furthermore, we analyze the type of awareness information exchanged and the emergent collaboration strategies. Finally, we provide implications for the design of future tabletop collaborative tools for blind users. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Accessibility; Empirical studies in accessibility; User studies.

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Interactiles

Cited by 26 publications

References 17 publications

Modular 3-D-Printed Education Tool for Blind and Visually Impaired Students Oriented to Net Structures

Modular 3-D-Printed Education Tool for Blind and Visually Impaired Students Oriented to Net Structures

Image Accessibility for Screen Reader Users: A Systematic Review and a Road Map

Collaborative Tabletops for Blind People

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