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The design of auditory user interfaces for blind users

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Hilko Donker,

Palle Klante,

Peter GornyAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '02: Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction

Pages 149 - 156

https://doi.org/10.1145/572020.572038

Published: 19 October 2002 Publication History

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Previous screen readers provide blind WWW-users only with the textual contents of the web pages, but exclude the access to important information coded in the layout of web pages. The approach we introduce here shall overcome the layout barrier of webpages with the help of three-dimensionally auditory objects ("hearcons") which are positioned in an auditory interaction realm (AIR). The elements of a webpage are reproduced in the AIR by a reference model ("torch metaphor").In a first detailed investigation the tonal qualities of the hearcons and the general design rules of the auditory interaction space have been examined. These results formed the foundation for the construction of an auditory webbrowser. The usability of this auditory webbrowser has been evaluated by a group of blind experts.

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The design of auditory user interfaces for blind users
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction techniques
      1. Auditory feedback
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping
      2. User centered design

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October 2002

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DOI:10.1145/572020

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