Computers and people with disabilities

Glinert, Ephraim P.; York, Bryant W.

doi:10.1145/129875.129876

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“…To ensure this momentum continues, parallel considerations of both sighted users and visually impaired users must be encouraged. We hope that this attempt would show that design for disability in applications could also lead to beneficial innovations for users who are not disabled [Glinert and York 2008].…”

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

Jeon

Walker

2011

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Users interact with mobile devices through menus, which can include many items. Auditory menus have the potential to make those devices more accessible to a wide range of users. However, auditory menus are a relatively new concept, and there are few guidelines that describe how to design them. In this paper, we detail how visual menu concepts may be applied to auditory menus in order to help develop design guidelines. Specifically, we examine how to optimize the designs of a new contextual cue, called "spindex" (i.e., speech index). We developed and evaluated various design alternatives for spindex and iteratively refined the design with sighted users and visually impaired users. As a result, the "attenuated" spindex was the best in terms of preference as well as performance, across user groups. Nevertheless, sighted and visually impaired participants showed slightly different responses and feedback. Results are discussed in terms of acoustical theory, practical display design, and assistive technology design.

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

Jeon

Walker

2011

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…This mirrors a shift seen in recent years from focusing on the disability in general to focusing on the individual and basing each AT development on a user-centered design [Hawley 2013]. It follows that an important measure of success of an AT should be concentrated around the actual increase of functional capability -to what extend has a particular AT helped an individual overcome a barrier that individual was facing in daily life?…”

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Perspectives on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology

2015

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…The task of helping people to interact with computers has been investigated for long time and many tools, techniques, and devices have been proposed to help users with special needs (physical deficiencies) to successfully use computers. Several research projects (e.g., Stephanidis et al, 1998;Glinert and York, 1992) have been working on developing tools and solutions to assist computer utilisation for disabled users and to provide them with an effective and efficient means to interact with computers which eventually will lead to broaden the participation of disabled and elderly people in the fast growing information technology world (Steriadis and Constantinou, 2003). In general, the problem of facilitating computer interaction has been addressed as follows:…”

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Application of word prediction and disambiguation to improve text entry for people with physical disabilities (assistive technology)

Al-Mubaid

Chen

2008

IJSHC

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Computers and technologies are becoming an integral and important part of lives for most people, including those with disabilities. Improving and enhancing text entry and interaction with computers for disabled users has been investigated for many years, with many systems and interface devices proposed to facilitate and simplify text input process. This paper describes how we improve textual information entry, through word prediction, as an assistive technology for people with motion impairment using the regular input device, the keyboard, to eliminate the overhead and cognitive load needed for the learning process associated with the new and specialised input devices.

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Computers and people with disabilities

Cited by 95 publications

References 6 publications

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

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

Perspectives on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology

Application of word prediction and disambiguation to improve text entry for people with physical disabilities (assistive technology)

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