Paper Info
Title
Accessibility of android-based mobile devices: a prototype to investigate interaction with blind users
Abstract
The study presented in this paper is part of mobile accessibility research with particular reference to the interaction with touch-screen based smartphones. Its aim was to gather information, tips and indications on interaction with a touch-screen by blind users. To this end we designed and developed a prototype for an Android-based platform. Four blind users (two inexperienced and two with experience of smartphones) were involved from the early phase of prototype design. The involvement of inexperienced users played a key role in understanding expectations of smart phones especially concerning touch-screen interaction. Skilled users provided useful suggestions on crucial aspects such as gestures and button position. Although the prototype developed is limited to only a few features for the Android operating system, the results obtained from blind user interaction can be generalized and applied to any mobile device based on a touch-screen. Thus, the results of this work could be useful to developers of mobile operating systems and applications based on a touch-screen, in addition to those working on designing and developing assistive technologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_89
ICCHP
Keywords
Field
DocType
useful suggestion,android operating system,mobile operating system,touch-screen interaction,prototype design,mobile accessibility research,android-based mobile device,mobile device,blind user,blind user interaction,inexperienced user
Android (operating system),Gesture,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7383
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sarah Chiti1282.61
Barbara Leporini242846.45