Feeling what you hear: tactile feedback for navigation of audio graphs

Wall, S. and Brewster, S.A. (2006) Feeling what you hear: tactile feedback for navigation of audio graphs. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 22-27 April 2006, pp. 1123-1132. ISBN 1595933727 (doi: 10.1145/1124772.1124941)

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Abstract

Access to digitally stored numerical data is currently very limited for sight impaired people. Graphs and visualizations are often used to analyze relationships between numerical data, but the current methods of accessing them are highly visually mediated. Representing data using audio feedback is a common method of making data more accessible, but methods of navigating and accessing the data are often serial in nature and laborious. Tactile or haptic displays could be used to provide additional feedback to support a point-and-click type interaction for the visually impaired. A requirements capture conducted with sight impaired computer users produced a review of current accessibility technologies, and guidelines were extracted for using tactile feedback to aid navigation. The results of a qualitative evaluation with a prototype interface are also presented. Providing an absolute position input device and tactile feedback allowed the users to explore the graph using tactile and proprioceptive cues in a manner analogous to point-and-click techniques.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Additional Information:This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
Keywords:accessibility, audio, blind, graph, guidelines, multimodal, navigation, tactile
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Brewster, Professor Stephen
Authors: Wall, S., and Brewster, S.A.
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Publisher:ACM Press
ISBN:1595933727
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2006 ACM Press
First Published:First published in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
353141An investigation of multimodal interaction with tactile displaysStephen BrewsterEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)GR/S53244/01Computing Science
353151An investigation of the use of tactile displays for visualisation for blind peopleStephen BrewsterEngineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)Gr/S53251/01Computing Science