Understanding domain expert's perspectives and expectations in assistive technology

Designing computer applications for blind users is a challenging task. The design requirements should encompass those feedback obtained from the target users, the domain experts as well as the designers' intuition of the system. Current practice has placed little emphasis on the involvement of...

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Published in2010 International Symposium on Information Technology Vol. 3; pp. 1164 - 1167
Main Authors Sulaiman, S, Saei, S N S M, Foong Oi Mean, Hasbullah, H
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2010
Subjects
assistive technology
blind users
Computers
Courseware
Domain experts
Games
Guidelines
Haptic interfaces
Interviews
screen reader
Software
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Summary:Designing computer applications for blind users is a challenging task. The design requirements should encompass those feedback obtained from the target users, the domain experts as well as the designers' intuition of the system. Current practice has placed little emphasis on the involvement of domain experts when capturing the design requirements. This paper addresses this problem by highlighting the importance of such involvement. An interview was conducted to elicit a domain expert's view on how blind users used computer, the technology they used and their general requirements on an ideal system. The findings include blind users require an intelligent system that could read "the right thing" at "the right time", provide a description of images on a document, and have shortcut keys for the system.
ISBN:1424467152
9781424467150
ISSN:2155-8973
DOI:10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561491