Tactile Paper Prototyping with Blind Subjects

Miao, Mei; Köhlmann, Wiebke; Schiewe, Maria; Weber, Gerhard

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04076-4_9

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“…Prototyping is also a common way of brainstorming design ideas with users, but for obvious reasons, visual prototyping techniques are not appropriate for blind users and therefore, alternatives have been proposed: [17] describes haptic paper prototypes (using cardboard mockups) while a tactile paper prototyping approach (with Braille and tactile graphics mockups) was discussed in [18]. Also, [19] proposed 2 types of haptic mock-ups for visually impaired children consisting of cardboard models and Braille-labelled plastic artefacts.…”

Section: Participatory Design With Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both methods proposed in [18] and [19] exclude the significant proportion of the blind population who are not Braille readers and are also only suitable to prototype haptic interaction as opposed to speech-based screen reader interaction. Also, the cardboard and plastic abstract models such as those used in [19] have a possible drawback of not allowing users to fully conceptualise the application as a whole, since users only interact with individual artefacts at a time.…”

Section: Participatory Design With Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach

Sahib

Stockman

Tombros

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Through out the design process, designers have to consider the needs of potential users. This is particularly important, but rather harder, when the designers interact with the artefact to-be-designed using different senses or devices than the users, for example, when sighted designers are designing an artefact for use by blind users. In such cases, designers have to ensure that the methods used to engage users in the design process and to communicate design ideas are accessible. In this paper, we describe a participatory approach with blind users based on the use of a scenario and the use of dialogue-simulated interaction during the development of a search interface. We achieved user engagement in two ways: firstly, we involved a blind user with knowledge of assistive technologies in the design team and secondly, we used a scenario as the basis of a dialogue between the designers and blind users to simulate interaction with the proposed search interface. Through this approach, we were able to verify requirements for the proposed search interface and blind searchers were able to provide formative feedback, to critique design plans and to propose new design ideas based on their experience and expertise with assistive technologies. In this paper, we describe the proposed scenario-based approach and examine the types of feedback gathered from its evaluation with blind users. We also critically reflect on the benefits and limitations of the approach, and discuss practical considerations in its application.

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Section: Participatory Design With Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participatory Design With Blind Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach

Sahib

Stockman

Tombros

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…A detailed description of this approach is given by Sahib et al [10] where scenario-based textual narrative was tailored and used as a basis for design dialogue between a sighted designer and visually-impaired users. Other approaches that proposed alternatives to visual design tools include the use of a tactile paper prototypes, which was developed as part of the HyperBraille project [11] and lo-fi physical prototypes [12]. A workshop that ran as part of the NordiCHI conference in 2008 focused on developing guidelines for haptic lo-fi prototyping [13], many of the suggestions made during that workshop can be used as part of an accessible participatory design process.…”

Section: Non-visual Participatory Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Audio-haptic interfaces for digital audio workstations

Metatla

Martin

Parkinson

et al. 2016

J Multimodal User Interfaces

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We examine how auditory displays, sonification and haptic interaction design can support visually impaired sound engineers, musicians and audio production specialists access to digital audio workstation. We describe a user-centred approach that incorporates various participatory design techniques to help make the design process accessible to this population of users. We also outline the audio-haptic designs that results from this process and reflect on the benefits and challenges that we encountered when applying these techniques in the context of designing support for audio editing.

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“…New solutions that are cheaper and easy to implement are still needed. A recent approach by Miao et al uses tactile paper prototyping to bridge the visual and haptic modality while ensuring multimodality when a screen reader user accesses graphical user interfaces [4].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Visual Maps Accessible to the Blind

Buzzi

Leporini

et al. 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Visual maps deliver content in a simple and effective way. They can be useful for various purposes in areas such as street guidance, surrounding information, and education. However, sightless persons are unable to explore visual maps and risk being cut off from several multimedia Web applications. In this paper, starting from accessibility issues of map-based applications, we discuss possible interaction modalities and devices to use for truly achieving usage perspectives desired by blind people. New ways to interact with a mobile device (such as gestures or touch commands) and possible solutions for making a map truly effective are investigated. In order to better explain the issues and needs of blind users accessing visual maps, an example of an interaction is presented.

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Tactile Paper Prototyping with Blind Subjects

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach

Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach

Audio-haptic interfaces for digital audio workstations

Making Visual Maps Accessible to the Blind

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