What You Feel Is What You Get: Mapping GUIs on Planar Tactile Displays

  • Authors:
  • Maria Schiewe;Wiebke Köhlmann;Oliver Nadig;Gerhard Weber

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 14482;Institut für Informatik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 14482;Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V., Marburg, Germany 35037;Institut für Angewandte Informatik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany 01187

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part II: Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Exploiting the advantages of planar tactile displays, we aim for efficient and effective information retrieval for blind users. To facilitate orientation, we define four regions segmenting the available space: header, body, structure, and detail region. Furthermore, we suggest four views--layout, outline, symbol and operating view--that define how detailed and in which manner information from window-based applications is displayed on tactile displays.