We present AudioFunctions.web, a web app that uses sonifcation, earcons and speech synthesis to enable blind people to explore mathematical function graphs. The system is designed for personalized access through different interfaces (touchscreen, keyboard, touchpad and mouse) on both mobile and traditional devices, in order to better adapt to different user abilities and preferences. It is also publicly available as a web service and can be directly accessed from the teaching material through a hypertext link. An experimental evaluation with 13 visually impaired participants highlights that, while the usability of all the presented interaction modalities is high, users with different abilities prefer different interfaces to interact with the system. It is also shown that users with higher level of mathematical education are capable of better adapting to interaction modalities considered more diffcult by others.
AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs / D. Ahmetovic, C. Bernareggi, J. Guerreiro, S. Mascetti, A. Capietto - In: W4A '19 : Proceedings[s.l] : ACM, 2019. - ISBN 9781450367165. - pp. 1-10 (( Intervento presentato al 16. convegno Web For All 2019 Personalization tenutosi a San Francisco nel 2019 [10.1145/3315002.3317560].
AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs
D. Ahmetovic
;C. Bernareggi;S. Mascetti;
2019
Abstract
We present AudioFunctions.web, a web app that uses sonifcation, earcons and speech synthesis to enable blind people to explore mathematical function graphs. The system is designed for personalized access through different interfaces (touchscreen, keyboard, touchpad and mouse) on both mobile and traditional devices, in order to better adapt to different user abilities and preferences. It is also publicly available as a web service and can be directly accessed from the teaching material through a hypertext link. An experimental evaluation with 13 visually impaired participants highlights that, while the usability of all the presented interaction modalities is high, users with different abilities prefer different interfaces to interact with the system. It is also shown that users with higher level of mathematical education are capable of better adapting to interaction modalities considered more diffcult by others.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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