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CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A generic approach for augmenting tactile diagrams with spatial non-speech sounds
Blind or visually impaired users typically access diagrams in the tactile medium. This paper describes TouchMelody, a system designed for augmenting such existing diagrams with 3D...
Rameshsharma Ramloll, Stephen A. Brewster
ICCHP
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Design and Development of Spoken Dialog Systems Incorporating Speech Synthesis of Viennese Varieties
Abstract. This paper describes our work on the design and development of a spoken dialog system, which uses synthesized speech of various different Viennese varieties. In a previo...
Michael Pucher, Friedrich Neubarth, Dietmar Schabu...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Instant tactile-audio map: enabling access to digital maps for people with visual impairment
In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, complete with a prototype system, for supporting instant access to maps for local navigation by people with visual impairment. The...
Zheshen Wang, Baoxin Li, Terri Hedgpeth, Teresa Ha...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Feeling what you hear: tactile feedback for navigation of audio graphs
Access to digitally stored numerical data is currently very limited for sight impaired people. Graphs and visualizations are often used to analyze relationships between numerical ...
Steven A. Wall, Stephen A. Brewster
HUC
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Haptic reassurance in the pitch black for an immersive theatre experience
An immersive theatre experience was designed to raise awareness and question perceptions of ‘blindness’, through enabling both sighted and blind members to experience a simila...
Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi,...