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Usability Evaluation of the MOST Mobile Assistant (SlatTalker)

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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The goal of the MOST project is to develop a novel, inexpensive, easy-to-use digital talking device for blind and visually impaired users based on off-the-shelf handheld computers (Personal Digital Assistant). The device provides a novel user interface based on a simple menu system and Braille text input, and a range of application programs to support everyday tasks, including clock, notepad, phone and short messaging, email. This paper reports on the usability evaluation of the device, its strategy and implementation, and shows that our approach results in an easy to learn and use system with input speed comparable to sighted users.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Pannon University, Veszprem, Hungary

    Zoltan Juhasz, Gabor Bognar & Emil Mogor

  2. KFKI RMKI Laboratory of Speech Technology for Rehabilitation, Budapest, Hungary

    Andras Arato, Laszlo Buday & Norbert Markus

  3. Speech Technology Kft., Budapest, Hungary

    Gergely Eberhardt, Zoltan Nagy & Terez Vaspori

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

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  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Juhasz, Z. et al. (2006). Usability Evaluation of the MOST Mobile Assistant (SlatTalker). In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_154

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