Kildal, J. and Brewster, S.A. (2006) Non-visual overviews of complex data sets. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 22-27 April 2006, pp. 947-952. ISBN 1595932984 (doi: 10.1145/1125451.1125634)
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Abstract
This paper describes the design and preliminary testing of an interface to obtain overview information from complex numerical data tables non-visually, which is something that cannot be done with currently available accessibility tools for the blind and visually impaired users. A sonification technique that hides detail in the data and highlights its main features without doing any computations to the data, is combined with a graphics tablet for focus+context interactive navigation, in an interface called TableVis. Results from its evaluation suggest that this technique can deliver better scores than speech in time to answer overview questions, correctness of the answers and subjective workload.
Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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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, data tables, overview, sonification, tablet |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Brewster, Professor Stephen |
Authors: | Kildal, J., 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: | 1595932984 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2006 ACM Press |
First Published: | First published in CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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