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Sonification of Pathways for People with Visual Impairments

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ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 379 - 381

https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241005

Published: 08 October 2018 Publication History

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Indoor navigation is an important service, currently investigated both in industry and academia. While the main focus of research is the computation of users' position, the additional challenge of conveying guidance instructions arises when the target user is blind or visually impaired (BVI). This contribution presents our ongoing research aimed at adopting sonification techniques to guide a BVI person. In particular we introduce three sonification techniques to guide the user during rotations. Preliminary results, conducted with 7 BVI people, show that some of the proposed sonification technique outperform a benchmark solution adopted in previous contributions.

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Sonification of Pathways for People with Visual Impairments
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility systems and tools
    2. Empirical studies in accessibility
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2018

508 pages

ISBN:9781450356503

DOI:10.1145/3234695

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Faustina Hwang
University of Reading, UK
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University of British Columbia, Canada
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University of Guelph, Canada

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