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Supporting blind users in selecting from very long lists of items on mobile phones

Published: 07 September 2010 Publication History

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Searching for an item in a long ordered list that does not fit the screen is a frequent task when using mobile devices. This paper explores four different interfaces to support blind users in carrying out this task. Two of them are based on the idea of tree-augmentation of a list, proposed by Furnas [3], and differ in their depth versus breadth ratio. The other two interfaces adopt the more traditional technique of list scrolling based respectively on standard multitap and T9 keyboard entry. The paper reports also on the results of a pilot study of the four interfaces conducted on two blind users.

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Chittaro, L. and De Marco, L. Evaluating the Effectiveness of "Effective View Navigation" for Very Long Ordered Lists on Mobile Devices. In 10th IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2005), Springer Verlag, 482--495, 2005.
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Furnas, G. W. Effective View Navigation. In Proc. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '97), ACM Press, 367--374, 1997.
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Landauer, T. and Nachbar, D. Selection from alphabetic and numeric menu trees using a touch screen: breadth, depth, and width. In Proc. Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '85), ACM Press, 73--78, 1985.
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Lehikoinen, J. and Salminen, I. An Empirical and Theoretical Evaluation of BinScroll: A Rapid Selection Technique for Alphanumeric Lists, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 6(2), 141--150, 2002.

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MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
September 2010
552 pages
ISBN:9781605588353
DOI:10.1145/1851600
  • General Chairs:
  • Marco de Sá,
  • Luís Carriço,
  • Program Chair:
  • Nuno Correia
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Published: 07 September 2010

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  1. blind users
  2. long lists
  3. menu selection
  4. mobile devices

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