Usability Evaluation of Acoustic Interfaces for the Blind
2011 (English)In: Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on Design of communication, SIGDOC'11, Pisa, Italy: ACM Publications, 2011, p. 9-16Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
With the rapid advent of touchscreen devices, opportunities are increasing to develop innovative interfaces, including applications that combine touch input with auditory feedback to serve the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community. Targeted to blind high- school children, our innovative design, AEDIN (Acoustic EDutainment INterface), uses non-speech sounds simultaneously as navigational prompts and content icons/signifiers for recorded text-to-speech educational essays, which are the main content of this application. A study of two versions of AEDIN was conducted with 20 participants from a K-12 school for the BVI to evaluate its usability and identify ways to improve it. Through the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, we discovered key design improvements that made AEDIN a highly usable and enjoyable interface for these users. The paper highlights good design practices for acoustic interfaces.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Pisa, Italy: ACM Publications, 2011. p. 9-16
Keywords [en]
Audeme, sound, auditory communication, auditory design, acoustic, touchscreen, interface, blind and visually impaired, children, usability evaluation.
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science, Information Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78182DOI: 10.1145/2038476.2038479ISBN: 978-1-4503-0936-3 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-78182DiVA, id: diva2:1253578
Conference
29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC), Pisa, 3-5 October, 2011
2018-10-052018-10-052018-10-22Bibliographically approved