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Analysis of Visually Impaired Users’ Navigation Techniques in Complex and Non-complex Layout by Using Spectrum

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Advances in Visual Informatics (IVIC 2017)

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Visually Impaired (VI) users who assist by screen reader use various navigation techniques during their web navigation activities. This paper analyzed the usage of various navigation techniques in complex and non-complex layout. This study also examines the navigation behavior of VI users based on navigation techniques employed by VI users. This paper emphases on method called Spectrum which used to represent their navigation techniques in complex and non-complex layout. This effort provided a new frontier in analysing qualitative data in more efficiently. This study proven that VI users’ navigation techniques in complex layout is differ from non-complex layout and it strongly influenced by information scent.

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  1. Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus), Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia

    Bavani Ramayah

  2. Institute of Visual Informatics (IVI), University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Alan F. Smeaton

  4. National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Sergio Velastin

  6. Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan

    Tada Terutoshi

  7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

  8. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Nazlena Mohamad Ali

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Ramayah, B., Jaafar, A. (2017). Analysis of Visually Impaired Users’ Navigation Techniques in Complex and Non-complex Layout by Using Spectrum. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70010-6_4

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