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ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automating tactile graphics translation
Access to graphical images (bar charts, diagrams, line graphs, etc.) that are in a tactile form (representation through which content can be accessed by touch) is inadequate for s...
Richard E. Ladner, Melody Y. Ivory, Rajesh Rao, Sh...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Research-derived web design guidelines for older people
This paper presents the development of a set of researchderived ageing-centred Web design guidelines. An initial set of guidelines was first developed through an extensive review ...
Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, Panayiotis Zaphiris
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic production of tactile graphics from scalable vector graphics
This paper presents a method to convert vector graphics into tactile representations for the blind. Generating tactile pictures from vector graphics is an important effort to bri...
Stephen E. Krufka, Kenneth E. Barner
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Toward Goldilocks' pointing device: determining a "just right" gain setting for users with physical impairments
We designed and evaluated an agent that recommends a pointing device gain for a given user, with mixed success. 12 participants with physical impairments used the Input Device Age...
Heidi Horstmann Koester, Edmund F. LoPresti, Richa...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Wizard-of-Oz test of ARTUR: a computer-based speech training system with articulation correction
This study has been performed in order to test the manmachine interface of a computer-based speech training aid named ARTUR with the main feature that it can give suggestions on h...
Olle Bälter, Olov Engwall, Anne-Marie Ös...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Verification of computer display pre-compensation for visual aberrations in an artificial eye
The possibility of pre-compensating images in a computer display according to the visual aberrations previously assessed in an optical system (e.g., the computer user’s eye) has...
Miguel Alonso Jr., Armando Barreto, Julie A. Jacko...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Web document summaries provide the sighted reader with a basis for making decisions regarding the route to take within non-linear text; and additi...
Simon Harper, Neha Patel