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Designing assistive technology for blind users

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This project reports on an observational and interview study of a non-sighted person to develop design insights for enhancing interactions between a blind person and everyday technological artifacts found in their home such as wristwatches, cell phones or software applications. Analyzing situations where work-arounds compensate for task failures reveals important insights for future artifact design for the blind such as the value of socialization, tactile and audio feedback, and facilitation of user independence.

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Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2006
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ISBN:1595932909
DOI:10.1145/1168987
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