Paper Info
Title
Auditory and tactile interfaces for representing the visual effects on the web
Abstract
In this paper, we describe auditory and tactile interfaces to represent visual effects nonvisually for blind users, allowing intuitive recognition of visual content that appears on the Web. This research examines how visual effects could be recognized by blind subjects using the senses of hearing and touch, aiming at integrating the results into a practical system in the future. As an initial step, two experiments were performed, one for sonification and tactilization of a page overview based on color-based fragmented groupings without speech, and one for sonification and tactilization of emphasized text based on analyzing rich text information with speech. The subjects could recognize visual representations presented by auditory and tactile interfaces throughout the experiment, and were conscious of the importance of the visual structures. We believe this shows our approach may be practical and available in the future.We will summarize our results and discuss what kind of information is suitable for each sense, as well as the next planned experiment and other future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/638249.638263
ASSETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
next planned experiment,visual effect,future work,visual representation,visual structure,blind subject,blind user,visual content,tactile interface,visual effects nonvisually,sonification
World Wide Web,Computer science,Sonification,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Rich Text Format
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-464-9
11
0.98
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chieko Asakawa191186.45
Hironobu Takagi274467.77
Shuichi Ino32112.56
Tohru Ifukube48721.63