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  • HapticRiaMaps: Towards Interactive Exploration of Web World Maps for the Visually Impaired

    Nikolaos Kaklanis, Konstantinos Votis, Panagiotis Moschonas, Dimitrios Tzovaras · 2011 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper presents HapticRiaMaps, a free open-source web application from the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) in Greece that makes online 2D maps accessible to visually impaired users through haptic force feedback and audio sonification. The system retrieves…

    blind and low vision · haptic technology · accessible maps · sonification · multimodal interaction

  • Spindex (Speech Index) Improves Auditory Menu Acceptance and Navigation Performance

    Myounghoon Jeon, Bruce N. Walker · 2011 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper introduces the "spindex" (speech index), a novel auditory cue designed to improve navigation through spoken menus on mobile devices. The spindex works by pronouncing the first letter of each menu item before the full text-to-speech (TTS) rendering—analogous to the…

    auditory interfaces · mobile accessibility · text-to-speech · screen readers · user interface design

  • Annotation-based Video Enrichment for Blind People: A Pilot Study on the Use of Earcons and Speech Synthesis

    Benoît Encelle, Magali Ollagnier-Beldame, Stéphanie Pouchot, Yannick Prié · 2011 · Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

    This paper presents exploratory work from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project, investigating how combining earcons (nonverbal audio messages) with speech synthesis can improve video accessibility for blind people. Traditional audio description has…

    video accessibility · blindness · audio description · earcons · speech technology

  • Toward 3D Scene Understanding via Audio-description: Kinect-iPad Fusion for the Visually Impaired

    Juan Diego Gomez, Sinan Mohammed, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun · 2011 · Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

    This demonstration paper presents a computer-vision-based framework that combines a Microsoft Kinect 3D depth sensor with an iPad touchscreen to enable visually impaired users to understand the spatial layout of indoor scenes through audio. The system works in several stages:…

    sonification · visual substitution · Kinect · computer vision · blindness

  • On the Audio Representation of Radial Direction

    Susumu Harada, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa · 2011 · Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11)

    This paper proposes a new primitive for auditory displays — radial direction — and evaluates a concrete mapping of vowel-like sounds to eight cardinal and ordinal directions. The authors observe that almost all prior sonification work has mapped data to linear sound properties…

    sonification · auditory display · auditory interface · non-visual interaction · eyes-free interaction

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