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This study introduces an innovative approach to designing an audio-tactile interface for representing coordinate plane graphs. Traditional graphing methods heavily rely on visual elements, posing accessibility challenges for blind and visually impaired ...

Blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals encounter significant challenges in perceiving the visual content of movies. Audio descriptions (AD) are inserted into speech gaps to describe visual content and storyline for BVI individuals. However, the ...

Continued social participation is a key determinant of healthy aging and lowers the risks of isolation and loneliness. While online technologies can provide a convenient way for older adults to connect socially, some prefer connecting offline with ...

Two-dimensional(2d) data access is crucial in connecting people with blindness and visual impairment (BVI) with the rest of the world. Such 2d information includes, for example, floor plans of train stations provided by transportation networks to help ...

Accessible alternatives to two-dimensional (2d) information are important in connecting people with blindness and visual impairment (BVI) to the rest of the world. Such 2d information for people with BVI includes, for example, line charts. Within line ...

Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams are commonly used in Systems Analysis and Design (SAaD) courses to communicate complex ideas, designs, and processes. While tools exist to accommodate blind and visually impaired users to work with UML diagrams, ...

The general trend regarding library services for visually impaired goes towards digital technology and electronic books to be downloaded via Internet. This paper illustrates a talking books web library for people who are blind or with low vision. It is ...

Storytelling promotes the development of imagination and creativity and facilitates the impregnation of linguistic, emotional and moral skills in children. Limited storytelling media for children with blindness and visual impairment (BVI) confines ...

In this poster, we explore the potential of using a tangible user interface (TUI) to enable blind and visually impaired (BVI) developers to design web layouts without assistance. We conducted a semi-structured interview and a co-design session with a ...

The continued development of digital technology is occurring alongside the aging of global populations, creating opportunities to assist older people that fear and are slower to adopt digital technology in everyday tasks and activities. Increased user ...

Blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals are increasingly creating visual content online; however, there is a lack of tools that allow these individuals to modify the visual attributes of the content and verify the validity of those modifications. ...

The College Board's AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) content has become a major new course for introducing K-12 students to the discipline. The course was designed for many reasons, but one major goal was to broaden participation. While significant ...

Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospital admissions and readmissions, and carries significant morbidity and mortality in the elderly patient population. Worsening ankle edema is an early sign of an acute HF exacerbation and needs to be ...

This article presents a Building Information Model (BIM), which describes the topology, geometry, and semantics of buildings; user preferences; and status of sensors deployed in the building. The aim is to propose an approach for developing a context-...

To easily revisit websites of interest, users typically use the browser's bookmarking feature. Due to technological barriers to access the web, however, the blind and visually impaired users make a little use of this feature. To further investigate such ...

This paper presents the development of Trackable Interactive Multi-modal Manipulatives (TIMM). This system provides a multimodal tangible user environment (TUE), enabling people with visual impairments to create, modify and naturally interact with ...

This paper presents the development of Multimodal Interactive Cubes for Object Orientation (MICOO) manipulatives. This system provides a multimodal tangible user interface (TUI), enabling people with visual impairments to create, modify and naturally ...

With the rapid advent of touchscreen devices, opportunities are increasing to develop innovative interfaces, including applications that combine touch input with auditory feedback to serve the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community. Targeted to ...

This paper presents and discusses design decisions for an acoustic edutainment application for blind users called AEDIN (Acoustic EDutainment INterface), comprising audio elements used as navigational and thematic landmarks in touch-screen computers. We ...

Acoustic-based computer interactivity offers great potential [1], particularly with blind and visually impaired users [2]. At Indiana University's School of Informatics at IUPUI, we have developed an innovative educational approach relying on "audemes," ...