research-article

Accessible real-world tagging through audio-tactile location markers

Authors:

Thomas KöltringerAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges

Pages 551 - 554

https://doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463242

Published: 20 October 2008 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

Real-world tagging technologies, such as RFID or visual codes, have enabled new application scenarios that foster mobile interaction with the physical world. While the application scenarios are promising for many contexts, the technologies are currently lacking accessibility. Especially blind and visually impaired people are not able to interact with tags if they are not aware of their presence. We propose audio-tactile location markers as a remedy to this problem. An audible signal leads users to the tag, which can be identified through tactile exploration. Preliminary user studies with four blindfolded subjects using an initial prototype showed the applicability of using an audible signal for locating tags.

References

[1]

Broll, G., Haarlaender, M., Paolucci, M., Wagner, M., Rukzio, E., Schmidt, A. Collect & Drop: A Technique for Physical Mobile Interaction. In Advances in Pervasive Computing, Austrian Computer Society (OCG), 103--106, 2008.

Google Scholar

[2]

Care Tec: Sherlock. http://www.caretec.at/Labeling.393.0.html?&cHash=1c21ce4 0f9&detail=596

Google Scholar

[3]

Coroama, V. Experiences from the design of a ubiquitous computing system for the blind. Ext. Abstracts CHI 2006, ACM Press (2006), 664--669.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

Levesque, V. Blindness, Technology and Haptics. Technical report, TR-CIM-05.08, Haptics Laboratory, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University (2005).

Google Scholar

[5]

Mäkelä K, Belt S., Greenblatt D., and Häkkilä J. Mobile interaction with visual and RFID tags: a field study on user perceptions. In Proc. of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, 991--994, 2007.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[6]

Plos, O. and Buisine, S. Universal Design for Mobile Phones: A Case Study. Ext. Abstracts CHI 2006, ACM Press (2006), 1229--1234.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

Rekimoto, J. and Ayatsuka Y. CyberCode: Designing augmented reality environments with visual tags. In Proc. of DARE, Designing Augmented Reality Environments. Springer-Verlag, 2000.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[8]

Rohs, M. and Gfeller, B. Using camera-equipped mobile phones for interacting with real-world objects. In Advances in Pervasive Computing, Austrian Computer Society (OCG), 265--271, 2004.

Google Scholar

[9]

Rudametkin, W., Touseau, L., Perisanidi, M., Gómez, A. and Donsez1, D. NFCMuseum: an Open-Source Middleware for Augmenting Museum Exhibits. In Proc. of the International Conference on Pervasive Services, 2008.

Google Scholar

[10]

Seeyingeyephone, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland http://www.vtt.fi/whatsnew/2007/20071009xml.jsp?lang=en

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Rahman AMomeni MBraton C(2024)Towards Programmable Context Aware Interaction with Smart Home Internet of ThingsIntelligent Systems and Applications10.1007/978-3-031-47715-7_45(663-681)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47715-7_45
Jahan MAziz FEma MIslam AIslam M(2019)A Wearable System for Path Finding to Assist Elderly People in an Indoor EnvironmentProceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3335595.3335634(1-7)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3335595.3335634
Nijholt AVyas DKröner A(2018)From Mundane to SmartInternational Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction10.4018/IJMHCI.20160101038:1(59-82)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/IJMHCI.2016010103
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Accessible real-world tagging through audio-tactile location markers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping
      2. User centered design

Recommendations

Multimodal Tactile Graphics Using T-TATIL, A Mobile Application for Tactile Exploration by Visually Impaired People
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Methods and User Experience
Abstract
Graphic contents are important resources to communicate information and their use is fundamental in the teaching process. Visually impaired people do not have easy access to this resource owing to their impairment. They mainly use tactile graphics ...
T-TATIL: mobile application for helping visually impaired people in reading and interpreting tactile drawings
IHC '19: Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Graphic contents are important resources to communicate information and their use is fundamental in the teaching process. Visually impaired people do not have easy access to this resource owing to their impairment. They mainly use tactile graphics to ...
Making Real-World Interfaces Accessible Through Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Fabrication
W4A '17: Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference

The world is full of physical interfaces that are inaccessible to blind people, from microwaves and information kiosks to thermostats and checkout terminals. Blind people cannot independently use such devices without at least first learning their layout,...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges

October 2008

621 pages

ISBN:9781595937049

DOI:10.1145/1463160

General Chairs:
Konrad Tollmar
Lund University, Sweden
,
Bodil Jönsson
Lund University, Sweden

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

In-Cooperation

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 20 October 2008

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

NordiCHI08

Sponsor:

NordiCHI08: 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

October 20 - 22, 2008

Lund, Sweden

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 379 of 1,572 submissions, 24%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

13
Total Citations
View Citations
361
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)7
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 05 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Rahman AMomeni MBraton C(2024)Towards Programmable Context Aware Interaction with Smart Home Internet of ThingsIntelligent Systems and Applications10.1007/978-3-031-47715-7_45(663-681)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47715-7_45
Jahan MAziz FEma MIslam AIslam M(2019)A Wearable System for Path Finding to Assist Elderly People in an Indoor EnvironmentProceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction10.1145/3335595.3335634(1-7)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3335595.3335634
Nijholt AVyas DKröner A(2018)From Mundane to SmartInternational Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction10.4018/IJMHCI.20160101038:1(59-82)Online publication date: 16-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/IJMHCI.2016010103
Ghiani GLeporini BPaternò F(2018)Vibrotactile feedback to aid blind users of mobile guidesJournal of Visual Languages and Computing10.1016/j.jvlc.2009.07.00420:5(305-317)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jvlc.2009.07.004
Freeman EWilson GBrewster SBaud-Bovy GMagnusson CCaltenco HMark GFussell SLampe Cschraefel mHourcade JAppert CWigdor D(2017)Audible Beacons and Wearables in SchoolsProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025518(4146-4157)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025518
Benabidvww AAlZuhair M(2014)User involvement in the development of indoor navigation system for the visually impaired: A needs-finding study2014 3rd International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr)10.1109/IUSER.2014.7002684(97-102)Online publication date: Sep-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/IUSER.2014.7002684
AlZuhair MNajjar AKanjo E(2014)NFC based applications for visually impaired people - A review2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW)10.1109/ICMEW.2014.6890657(1-6)Online publication date: Jul-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMEW.2014.6890657
Ivanov R(2014)Blind-environment interaction through voice augmented objectsJournal on Multimodal User Interfaces10.1007/s12193-014-0166-z8:4(345-365)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-014-0166-z
Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila KSuhonen KLaaksonen JKildal JTahiroğlu K(2013)User experience and usage scenarios of audio-tactile interaction with virtual objects in a physical environmentProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces10.1145/2513506.2513514(67-76)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2513506.2513514
Vyas DNijholt Avan der Veer GHvannberg ELárusdóttir MBlandford AGulliksen J(2010)Supporting cooperative design through "living" artefactsProceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries10.1145/1868914.1868975(541-550)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1868914.1868975
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Multimodal Tactile Graphics Using T-TATIL, A Mobile Application for Tactile Exploration by Visually Impaired People

T-TATIL: mobile application for helping visually impaired people in reading and interpreting tactile drawings

Making Real-World Interfaces Accessible Through Crowdsourcing, Computer Vision, and Fabrication

Comments

Information

Published In

Sponsors

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Publication History

Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Conference

Acceptance Rates

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations