Title :
Designing haptic computer interfaces for blind people
Author_Institution :
CERTEC, Lund Univ., Sweden
Abstract :
Certec has been working on touch interfaces - haptic interfaces since 1995, exploring the possibilities they can offer people with different kinds of disabilities. With a haptic computer interface a blind person can learn mathematics by tracing touchable mathematical curves, playing haptic computer games, and gaining better access to graphical user interfaces like Windows. This paper presents a brief overview of a set of tests that have been made and some of the results from these tests. This is followed by a set of design recommendations that we have been able to extract as an extended result of this research and development work. These guidelines are grouped under the headings navigation, finding objects, understanding objects, haptic widgets and physical interaction
Keywords :
graphical user interfaces; handicapped aids; haptic interfaces; mathematics computing; user interface management systems; Certec; Windows; blind people; design recommendations; disabilities; graphical user interfaces; haptic computer games; haptic computer interfaces; haptic widgets; mathematics learning; navigation; object finding; object understanding; physical interaction; touch interfaces; touchable mathematical curves; Acoustic testing; Computer displays; Computer interfaces; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; Haptic interfaces; Navigation; Signal processing; System testing; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and its Applications, Sixth International, Symposium on. 2001
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6703-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISSPA.2001.949777
