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This study proposes a novel user interface (UI) for electronic devices, such as e-book readers, for visually impaired people. Voice and touch interfaces such as the text-to-speech function and touch panel of e-book readers, respectively, have enabled such users to independently comprehend text and complete and individual sentences end-to-end. However, these users may find it inconvenient to skip certain sentences because the visual interface design of current e-book readers is primarily based on paper books. This study develops the “HapTalker” UI design prototype to overcome this inconvenience. A performance estimation model for this UI is also proposed.
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Nakai, R., Ito, K., Yanagi, H., Mima, Y. (2019). HapTalker: E-book User Interface for Blind People. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2019 - Posters. HCII 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1032. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23522-2_36
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