Tactile Graphics Revised: The Novel BrailleDis 9000 Pin-Matrix Device with Multitouch Input
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International on ConferenceUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part II: Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments
ICCHP keynote: designing haptic interaction for a collaborative world
ICCHP'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computers helping people with special needs
Making visual maps accessible to the blind
UAHCI'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: users diversity - Volume Part II
COSIT'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Spatial information theory
Non-visual 2D representation of obstacles
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Fast and independent access to map directions for people who are blind
Interacting with Computers
Supporting braille learning and uses by adapting transcription to user's needs
ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part I
Design and user satisfaction of interactive maps for visually impaired people
ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part II
A haptic-audio interface for acquiring spatial knowledge about apartments
HAID'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
Exploration and avoidance of surrounding obstacles for the visually impaired
Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Generating situated assisting utterances to facilitate tactile-map understanding: a prototype system
SLPAT '12 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Extended verbal assistance facilitates knowledge acquisition of virtual tactile maps
SC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Spatial Cognition VIII
ATMap: annotated tactile maps for the visually impaired
COST'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Cognitive Behavioural Systems
Enriching graphic maps to enable multimodal interaction by blind people
UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: design methods, tools, and interaction techniques for eInclusion - Volume Part I
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People who are blind or low vision currently hasn't obtained an effectual solution to access map applications. Although there are existing several paper-based tactile map projects, most of them need additional processing when product of new area of a map. Besides because of the size limitation of paper materials, these kinds of map fail to provide detailed information. In order to improvement accessibility of geographic data, we develop an audio-haptic map browser to access geo-data from an off-the-shelf GIS through a large-scale Braille display. The browser enables to not only maintain lively haptic sensation via raised pins, but also speech out detailed information of each map element stored in the GIS database. Furthermore, in principle it is possible to carry out worldwide map without any additional processing, if the GIS database supports. We employ a novel method, blinking pins, aimed at locating map elements quickly when implementing map search operations. Excepting introduction of our methodologies, we evaluate the system in 2 phases by participation of 4 blind persons. The results of evaluations have been issued in the end.