A voice-controlled web browser to navigate hierarchical hidden menus of web pages in a smart-tv environment

Han, Sueng‐Han; Jung, Geunseong; Ryu, Minsoo; Choi, Byung-Uk; Cha, Jaehyuk

doi:10.1145/2567948.2578037

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“…Prior work has proposed a variety of input devices and techniques to interact with television, such as voice [6,39], gestures [69,77,88,92], wearables [72,93], and on-skin input [26], to mention a few examples. Also, several mobile applications are available to control the TV from the smartphone, 1 and using secondary screens during television watching has been an active area of research [7,15,21,22].…”

Section: Television Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Ungurean

Vatavu

2021

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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We conduct an examination of the accessibility challenges experienced by people with upper body motor impairments when interacting with television. We report fndings from a study with N=41 people with motor impairments (spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy) and document their challenges and coping strategies for using the TV remote control, but also their television watching experience and expectations of suitable assistive technology for television. Our results show that, despite several accessible remote control products available on the market, the majority of our participants preferred to DIY and hack, and to adopt coping strategies to be able to use conventional TV remote controls. We contrast their experience against that of a control group with N=41 people without impairments. We refect about the DIY culture and people with motor impairments, and we propose future work directions to increase the accessibility of interactions with television. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility technologies.

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Section: Television Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…interacting with television using voice [6,39], gestures [69,71,88,92], apps on smartphones [8], wearables [72,93], room-level motion tracking systems [76], AR devices [78], and on-skin input [26], the TV remote control is still prevalent and very actual.…”

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Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Ungurean

Vatavu

2021

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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“…The idea of the voice-operated browser was extended by Han et al [11] such that it could be used in a smart TV environment. The research focused on navigating and controlling a dynamically generated hierarchical menu on a webpage with voice keywords.…”

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A Voice Controlled E-Commerce Web Application

Kandhari

Zulkemine²,

Isah³

2018

2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)

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Automatic voice-controlled systems have changed the way humans interact with a computer. Voice or speech recognition systems allow a user to make a hands-free request to the computer, which in turn processes the request and serves the user with appropriate responses. After years of research and developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence, today voice-controlled technologies have become more efficient and are widely applied in many domains to enable and improve human-tohuman and human-to-computer interactions. The state-of-the-art e-commerce applications with the help of web technologies offer interactive and user-friendly interfaces. However, there are some instances where people, especially with visual disabilities, are not able to fully experience the serviceability of such applications. A voice-controlled system embedded in a web application can enhance user experience and can provide voice as a means to control the functionality of e-commerce websites. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of speech recognition systems (SRS) and present a voice-controlled commodity purchase e-commerce application using IBM Watson speech-to-text to demonstrate its usability. The prototype can be extended to other application scenarios such as government service kiosks and enable analytics of the converted text data for scenarios such as medical diagnosis at the clinics.

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“…Browsing the Web with these voice browsers requires the conversion of web pages to JVoiceXML [54], a document format that operates within a controlled domain. In some cases, voice navigation is used for improving one particular aspect of browsing, e.g., [21] focuses on making the menus and submenus appearing on a webpage voice-accessible; Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) [36] makes it possible to follow a link by speaking its ordinal number and enables a few other basic commands. Alas, neither is accessible to blind users.…”

Section: Speech-based Browsingmentioning

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Non-visual Web Browsing: Beyond Web Accessibility

Ramakrishnan

Ashok

Billah

2017

Universal Access in Human–Computer Interaction. Designing Novel Interactions

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People with vision impairments typically use screen readers to browse the Web. To facilitate non-visual browsing, web sites must be made accessible to screen readers, i.e., all the visible elements in the web site must be readable by the screen reader. But even if web sites are accessible, screen-reader users may not find them easy to use and/or easy to navigate. For example, they may not be able to locate the desired information without having to listen to a lot of irrelevant contents. These issues go beyond web accessibility and directly impact web usability. Several techniques have been reported in the accessibility literature for making the Web usable for screen reading. This paper is a review of these techniques. Interestingly, the review reveals that understanding the semantics of the web content is the overarching theme that drives these techniques for improving web usability.

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A voice-controlled web browser to navigate hierarchical hidden menus of web pages in a smart-tv environment

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Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

A Voice Controlled E-Commerce Web Application

Non-visual Web Browsing: Beyond Web Accessibility

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