Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Gesture-Based Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Intelligent Intent-Aware Touchscreen Systems Using Gesture Tracking with Endpoint Prediction

      • Bashar I. Ahmad, Patrick M. Langdon, Robert Hardy, Simon J. Godsill

      Pages 3-14

   3. A Comparison of Gaze-Based and Gesture-Based Input for a Point-and-Click Task

      • Dominic Canare, Barbara Chaparro, Jibo He

      Pages 15-24

   4. Understanding, Evaluating and Analyzing Touch Screen Gestures for Visually Impaired Users in Mobile Environment

      • Vikas Luthra, Sanjay Ghosh

      Pages 25-36

   5. Touchless Text Entry for All: Initial Design Considerations and Prototypes

      • Alexandros Mourouzis, Giorgos Arfaras, Vassilis Kilintzis, Ioanna Chouvarda, Nicos Maglaveras

      Pages 37-49

   6. A Proposed Dynamical Analytic Method for Characteristic Gestures in Human Communication

      • Toshiya Naka, Toru Ishida

      Pages 50-57

   7. Collection and Classification of Gestures from People with Severe Motor Dysfunction for Developing Modular Gesture Interface

      • Ikushi Yoda, Kazuyuki Itoh, Tsuyoshi Nakayama

      Pages 58-68

3. Touch-Based and Haptic Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Reading Comprehension Issues and Individuals with Visual Impairments: The Effects of Using 8-dot and 6-dot Braille Code Through a Braille Display

      • Vassilios Argyropoulos, Aineias Martos, Georgios Sideridis, Georgios Kouroupetroglou, Magda Nikolaraizi, Maria Papazafiri

      Pages 71-81

   3. Making Blind People Autonomous in the Exploration of Tactile Models: A Feasibility Study

      • Francesco Buonamici, Rocco Furferi, Lapo Governi, Yary Volpe

      Pages 82-93

   4. Finding Favorable Textures for Haptic Display

      • Hee Jae Hwang, Da Young Ju

      Pages 94-102

   5. Improving Touchscreen Accessibility in Self-Service Technology

      • Elina Jokisuu, Mike McKenna, Andrew W. D. Smith, Phil Day

      Pages 103-113

   6. Transparent Touch – Interacting with a Multi-layered Touch-Sensitive Display System

      • Andreas Kratky

      Pages 114-126

   7. A Haptic Knob as an Innovative User Interface for Visually-Impaired

      • Maura Mengoni, Lorenzo Cavalieri, Damiano Raponi

      Pages 127-138

   8. User-Acceptance of Latency in Touch Interactions

      • Walter Ritter, Guido Kempter, Tobias Werner

      Pages 139-147

   9. Towards Vibrotactile Direction and Distance Information for Virtual Reality and Workstations for Blind People

      • Simon Schätzle, Bernhard Weber

      Pages 148-160

   10. Improving Accessibility Design on Touchscreens

       • Shuang Xu

       Pages 161-173

4. Visual and Multisensory Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Senses in Space: Mapping the Universe to the Human Body

      • J. Aguilera

      Pages 177-185

The four LNCS volume set 9175-9178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, UAHCI 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers of the four volume set address the following major topics: LNCS 9175, Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Access to today's technologies (Part I), addressing the following major topics: LNCS 9175: Design and evaluation methods and tools for universal access, universal access to the web, universal access to mobile interaction, universal access to information, communication and media. LNCS 9176: Gesture-based interaction, touch-based and haptic Interaction, visual and multisensoryexperience, sign language technologies and smart and assistive environments LNCS 9177: Universal Access to Education, universal access to health applications and services, games for learning and therapy, and cognitive disabilities and cognitive support and LNCS 9178: Universal access to culture, orientation, navigation and driving, accessible security and voting, universal access to the built environment and ergonomics and universal access.

• Accessibility
• Adaptation
• Brain computer interfaces
• HCI
• Human centered computing

• Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

  Margherita Antona

• University of Crete and Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

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