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OS-level surface haptics for touch-screen accessibility

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ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility

Pages 315 - 316

https://doi.org/10.1145/2661334.2661343

Published: 20 October 2014 Publication History

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The TPad Tablet combines an Android tablet with a variable friction haptic touch-screen and offers many novel interaction possibilities. For example, unique textures may be associated with different user interface elements, such as text boxes and buttons. This paper presents an Android AccessibilityService that was created to give operating system-wide (OS) access to haptic effects. Prior to this work, the haptic feedback of the TPad could be controlled only from within specific applications. With the new implementation, all applications and primary user interfaces (e.g. home screen) will have access to the TPad. Rather than focus on specific elements or applications, we seek to provide a high fidelity haptic experience that elevates the TPad's accessibility to the standard of Talkback and Voiceover, Android's and Apple's accessibility programs respectively. The code for the application is available on our website.

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Grussenmeyer WFolmer E(2017)Accessible Touchscreen Technology for People with Visual ImpairmentsACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/30227019:2(1-31)Online publication date: 17-Jan-2017
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OS-level surface haptics for touch-screen accessibility
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility

October 2014

378 pages

ISBN:9781450327206

DOI:10.1145/2661334

General Chair:
Sri Kurniawan
University of California Santa Cruz, USA
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John Richards
IBM Watson Group, USA

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ASSETS '14: The 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 20 - 22, 2014

New York, Rochester, USA

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