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Communicating graphical information to blind users using music : the role of context
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posted on 2008-05-22, 11:25 authored by James L. Alty, Dimitrios I. RigasWe describe the design and use of AUDIOGRAPH - a tool
for investigating the use of music in the communication of
graphical information to blind and partially sighted users.
This paper examines the use of the system to communicate
complex diagrams and gives some examples of user output.
Performance is not as good as expected and it is postulated
that context will play an important part in the perception of
diagrams communicated using music. A set of experiments
are reported which indicate that context does indeed seem
to play an important role in assisting meaningful
understanding of the diagrams communicated. The
implications for using music in auditory interface design
are discussed.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Citation
ALTY, J.L. and RIGAS, D.I., 1998. Communicating graphical information to blind users using music : the role of context. IN: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 18 - 23, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPublisher
© ACMPublication date
1998Notes
This is a conference paper. The definitive version is available from: http://www.acm.org/publications Permission to make digital/hard copy of all or part of this material without fee is granted provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, the ACM copyright/server notice, the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM). To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.ISBN
0201309874Language
- en