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We are developing a communication media for blind persons which enables blind persons to represent diagrams freely using only their tactile and auditory senses. We conducted psychological experiments in which blind students used and evaluated our prototype system, tactile-audio display (TAD). As a result, some problems on the user interface for blind persons were revealed. These included “troublesome keyboard operations”, “rasping voice menu” and “difficulty in simultaneous use by three or more persons”. We considered how to resolve such problems.
We would like to thank Mr. A. Mizutani, Mr. A. Onoda and other members of the Nagoya School for the Blind for valuable discussions.
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Minagawa, H., Ohnishi, N., Sugie, N. (1994). Tactile-audio user interface for blind persons. In: Zagler, W.L., Busby, G., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Computers for Handicapped Persons. ICCHP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58476-5_187
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