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ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Photonote evaluation: aiding students with disabilities in a lecture environment
Visual material presented in lectures can be enhanced for students with disabilities by using high-resolution digitalstill cameras. The Photonote system uses a digital-still camer...
Gregory Hughes, Peter Robinson
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating American Sign Language generation through the participation of native ASL signers
We discuss important factors in the design of evaluation studies for systems that generate animations of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences. In particular, we outline how some...
Matt Huenerfauth, Liming Zhao, Erdan Gu, Jan M. Al...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
EasyVoice: integrating voice synthesis with Skype
This paper presents EasyVoice, a system that integrates voice synthesis with Skype. EasyVoice allows a person with voice disabilities to talk with another person located anywhere ...
Paulo A. Condado, Fernando G. Lobo
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Variable frame rate for low power mobile sign language communication
The MobileASL project aims to increase accessibility by enabling Deaf people to communicate over video cell phones in their native language, American Sign Language (ASL). Real-tim...
Neva Cherniavsky, Anna Cavender, Richard E. Ladner...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Effects of sampling methods on web accessibility evaluations
Except for trivial cases, any accessibility evaluation has to be based on some method for selecting pages to be analyzed. But this selection process may bias the evaluation. Up to...
Giorgio Brajnik, Andrea Mulas, Claudia Pitton
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
SAMBA: a semi-automatic method for measuring barriers of accessibility
Although they play an important role in any assessment procedure, web accessibility metrics are not yet well developed and studied. In addition, most metrics are geared towards co...
Giorgio Brajnik, Raffaella Lomuscio
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Simulation to predict performance of assistive interfaces
Computers offer valuable assistance to people with physical disabilities. However designing human-computer interfaces for these users is complicated. The range of abilities is mor...
Pradipta Biswas, Peter Robinson
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
WebAnywhere: a screen reader on-the-go
People often use computers other than their own to browse the web, but blind web users are limited in where they access the web because they require specialized, expensive program...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig Prince
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Adoption and configuration of assistive technologies: a semiotic engineering perspective
This paper discusses semiotic engineering (a design methodology) and its potential for addressing issues concerning the adoption and configuration of assistive technologies. Categ...
Katherine Deibel