An Accessible Environment to Integrate Blind Participants into Brainstorming Sessions

  • Stephan Pölzer (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentationContributed talkunknown

Description

This paper presents user studies done for a system supporting blind people to take part in co-located brainstorming meetings. For supporting blind people, visual information exchange has to be made accessible to them. This visual information exchange takes place in two ways a) by using artefacts to hold and share visual information (e.g. text on blackboards, content of mind-map nodes) b) by non-verbal communication exchange (e.g. nodding to agree to someone’s arguments, pointing to highlight some important artefacts). The presented prototype uses Leap Motion to detect pointing gestures as a representative example for non-verbal communication elements, while for the artefact layer a mind-map is used. A so-called “blind user interface” serializes the star structure of this min-map and allows accessing it by the blind user through a regular screen reader.
Period14 Jul 2016
Event titleICCHP 2016
Event typeConference
LocationLinz, AustriaShow on map

Fields of science

  • 502007 E-commerce
  • 509002 Disability studies
  • 102027 Web engineering
  • 302027 Hearing, voice and language disorders
  • 202004 Brain-computer interface
  • 503008 E-learning
  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 602013 Sign language research
  • 506002 E-government
  • 211902 Assistive technologies
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102021 Pervasive computing
  • 102013 Human-computer interaction
  • 102024 Usability research
  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102026 Virtual reality
  • 102014 Information design

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Social Systems, Markets and Welfare States
  • Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)