Non-visual overviews of complex data sets

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
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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