Stephen Brewster
Matt Jones
Roderick Murray-Smith
A. A. Nanavati
N. Rajput
ABSTRACT
"In all the wonderful worlds that writing opens, the spoken word still resides and lives. Written texts all have to be related somehow, directly or indirectly, to the world of sound, the natural habitat of language, to yield their meanings."
Only 22% of the human population accesses the Internet. The larger fraction of the world cannot read or write. Worldwide, 284 million people are visually impaired. And yet, there are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers, and their numbers are increasing.
Much of the mobile work by HCI researchers explores a future world populated by high-end devices and relatively affluent users. This panel turns to consider the hundreds of millions of people for whom such sophistication will not be realised for many years to come. How should we design interfaces and services that are relevant and beneficial for them?
- "The Spoken Web", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trFfrOiCSWQGoogle Scholar
- "The 'Avaaj Otlo' Pilot", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFc6HkK2eiwGoogle Scholar
- Robinson, S., Rajput, N., Jones, M., Jain, A., Sahay, S., Nanavati, A. A. TapBack: Towards Richer Mobile Interfaces in Impoverished Contexts. In Proceedings of CHI 2011 (pages 2733--2736), Vancouver, May 2011. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Turunen, M., Hakulinen, J., Heimonen, T. Assessment of Spoken and Multimodal Applications: Lessons Learned from Laboratory and Field Studies. Interspeech 2010.Google Scholar
- Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Brewster, S. A. Eyes-Free Multitasking: The Effect of Cognitive Load on Mobile Spatial Audio Interfaces. In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 (Vancouver, CA). Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- We need to talk: rediscovering audio for universal access
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