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Development of a DAISY Player That Utilizes a Braille Display for Document Structure Presentation and Navigation

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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From the perspective of assistive Technology, the hierarchical document tree structure is particularly relevant to represent a document’s logical structure. This research proposes a way of realizing advantages attainable from making use of the logical structure of documents by developing a method of presenting the tree structure information of a document on a braille display. The document browser software developed for this research operates as a DAISY player. Experimentation found that using a user interface of that document browser software improves the efficiency of understanding the document’s general structure and finding headings when compared to the user interface of a conventional DAISY player with numeric keypad cursor navigation. Not just the DAISY contents, the proposed user interface can be used for general-purpose applications.

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  1. National Center for University Entrance Examinations, Komaba 2-19-23, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8501, Japan

    Kazunori Minatani

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Minatani, K. (2012). Development of a DAISY Player That Utilizes a Braille Display for Document Structure Presentation and Navigation. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_77

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