Designing Media for Visually-Impaired Users of Refreshable Touch Displays: Possibilities and Pitfalls

This paper discusses issues of importance to designers of media for visually impaired users. The paper considers the influence of human factors on the effectiveness of presentation as well as the strengths and weaknesses of tactile, vibrotactile, haptic, and multimodal methods of rendering maps, gra...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on haptics 2015-07, Vol.8 (3), p.248-257
Main Authors: O'Modhrain, Sile, Giudice, Nicholas A., Gardner, John A., Legge, Gordon E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blindness - rehabilitation
Braille
Communications Media
Data Display
Displays
Equipment Design
Haptic interfaces
Haptics
Human factors
Humans
Macular Degeneration
Media
Rendering
Rendering (computer graphics)
Sensory Aids
Shape
Solid modeling
Tactile
Therapeutic Touch
Touch
User-Computer Interface
Visualization
Visually Impaired Persons - rehabilitation
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Summary:This paper discusses issues of importance to designers of media for visually impaired users. The paper considers the influence of human factors on the effectiveness of presentation as well as the strengths and weaknesses of tactile, vibrotactile, haptic, and multimodal methods of rendering maps, graphs, and models. The authors, all of whom are visually impaired researchers in this domain, present findings from their own work and work of many others who have contributed to the current understanding of how to prepare and render images for both hard-copy and technology-mediated presentation of Braille and tangible graphics.
ISSN:1939-1412
2329-4051
DOI:10.1109/TOH.2015.2466231