A Smartphone-Based Chinese DAISY Digital Talking Book Player for Visually Impaired

Author

Yuan-Hsiang Lin ; Yuan-Chang Hsu ; Yuan-Ya Kao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

299

Abstract

A "Chinese DAISY Reader" based on the Android smart phone was designed and developed. the main functions of this device include DAISY digital talking book player, bookmark add and access, as well as voice record and play. This paper describes a user interface with an easy-to-distinguish layout, auditory output and gestural input that enables visually impaired subjects to interact with touch screen on the smart phone. a usability study was also reported that the user interface of this DAISY reader is easy-to-use and acceptable for visually impaired.

Keywords

Linux; graphical user interfaces; handicapped aids; haptic interfaces; interactive systems; smart phones; touch sensitive screens; Android smart phone-based Chinese DAISY digital talking book player; Chinese DAISY Reader; auditory output; bookmark add; data access; gestural input; touch screen; user interface; visually impaired people; voice player; voice recordng; Androids; Fingers; Humanoid robots; Layout; Navigation; Speech; User interfaces; Android; DAISY; digital talking book; smartphone; visually impaired assistive device;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), 2012 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kitakushu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2138-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGEC.2012.34

Filename

6457153