Paper Info
Title
OS-level surface haptics for touch-screen accessibility
Abstract
The TPad Tablet combines an Android tablet with a variable friction haptic touch-screen and offers many novel interaction possibilities. For example, unique textures may be associated with different user interface elements, such as text boxes and buttons. This paper presents an Android AccessibilityService that was created to give operating system-wide (OS) access to haptic effects. Prior to this work, the haptic feedback of the TPad could be controlled only from within specific applications. With the new implementation, all applications and primary user interfaces (e.g. home screen) will have access to the TPad. Rather than focus on specific elements or applications, we seek to provide a high fidelity haptic experience that elevates the TPad's accessibility to the standard of Talkback and Voiceover, Android's and Apple's accessibility programs respectively. The code for the application is available on our website.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2661334.2661343
ASSETS
Keywords
Field
DocType
touchscreen,accessibility,tablet,assistive technologies for persons with disabilities,variable friction,haptic i/o,surface haptics
High fidelity,Android (operating system),Computer science,Touchscreen,Human–computer interaction,User interface,Multimedia,Haptic technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.58
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Suhong Jin130.58
Joe Mullenbach2373.52
Craig Shultz3504.33
J. Edward Colgate41268202.92
Anne Marie Piper558647.70