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Gesture interface magnifiers for low-vision users

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Seunghyun (Tina) Lee,

Jon SanfordAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 281 - 282

https://doi.org/10.1145/2384916.2384993

Published: 22 October 2012 Publication History

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This study compared different types of magnification and navigation methods on low-vision handheld magnifiers to determine the feasibility of a touch screen gesture interface. The results show that despite the fact that participants had no experience using gestures for magnification or navigation, participants were more satisfied with them. Gestures were faster and more preferred than the indirect input methods for pushing a button or rotating a knob, which had previously been familiar to participants from other electronic device interfaces. The study suggests that the use of gestures may afford an alternative and more natural magnification and navigation method for a new user-centric low vision magnifier.

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ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2012

321 pages

ISBN:9781450313216

DOI:10.1145/2384916

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Matt Huenerfauth
City University of New York, USA
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University of California Santa Cruz, USA

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