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Computer Science @ Rochester
Friday, November 04, 2011
12:45 PM
CSB 209
Shaun Kane
Accessible Gesture-Based User Interfaces for Effective Access to Touch Screens by Blind People
Abstract: Using touch screens presents a number of usability and accessibility challenges for blind people. Most touch screen-based user interfaces are optimized for visual interaction, and may be difficult or impossible to use without vision. This talk demonstrates the possibilities of redesigning gesture-based user interfaces to enable blind people to use touch screens. I will present my formative research with blind and visually impaired people, which identified current accessibility barriers that can be resolved through the creation of more accessible touch screens, and which revealed design guidelines for creating more accessible touch screen user interfaces.

I will then describe several design prototypes which use new, accessible gestures to enable blind people to use touch screens on mobile devices, tabletop computers, and public information kiosks.

Bio: Shaun K. Kane is assistant professor of human-centered computing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research explores the creation of new accessible input and interaction techniques for PCs, mobile devices, and wearable computers. He received his Ph.D. from The Information School at the University of Washington in 2011. Shaun is a Google Lime Scholar and a recipient of Best Paper Awards from the ACM CHI and MobileHCI conferences.