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Acoustic interaction design through "audemes": experiences with the blind

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This paper presents and discusses design decisions for an acoustic edutainment application for blind users called AEDIN (Acoustic EDutainment INterface), comprising audio elements used as navigational and thematic landmarks in touch-screen computers. We tested designs with blind and visually impaired teenagers. Preliminary results demonstrated the efficacy of AEDIN as an easy-to-learn and memorize architecture, and a potentially fun interface. The paper illustrates the lessons learned from the design and evaluation experience and contextually outlines new research directions for aural communication design.

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      SIGDOC '09: Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
      October 2009
      328 pages
      ISBN:9781605585598
      DOI:10.1145/1621995

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