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Improving public transit usability for blind and deaf-blind people by connecting a braille display to a smartphone

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We conducted interviews with blind and deaf-blind people to understand how they use the public transit system. In this paper, we discuss key challenges our participants faced and present a tool we developed to alleviate these challenges. We built this tool on MoBraille, a novel framework that enables a Braille display to benefit from many features in an Android phone without knowledge of proprietary, device-specific protocols. We conducted participatory design with a deaf-blind person and describe the lessons learned about designing an interface for a deaf-blind person.

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Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2010). OneBusAway: Results from providing real-time arrival information for public transit. Proc. CHI 2010. New York: ACM Press, 1807--1816.
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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2010
346 pages
ISBN:9781605588810
DOI:10.1145/1878803

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  1. accessibility
  2. blind
  3. deaf-blind
  4. public transit usability

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