Usab10 User Centered Interaction Design for Mobile Applications Focused on Visually Impaired and Blind People
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This document summarizes research into developing mobile applications for visually impaired and blind users. It discusses conducting user research through surveys and interviews to understand users' needs. An initial concept for a simple, text-based interface was prototyped and tested with experts and visually impaired users. Based on feedback, the user interface was refined to simplify input and ensure all text is readable by screen readers. The research aims to continue improving features and testing the application on other platforms to develop more accessible mobile experiences for blind users.
Usab10 User Centered Interaction Design for Mobile Applications Focused on Visually Impaired and Blind People
- 1. Take out your mobile phone, dial a number, but imagine you are blind. Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 2. User Centered Interaction Design for Mobile Applications Focused on Visually Impaired and Blind People Elmar Krajnc, Johannes Feiner, Stefan Schmidt USAB 2010, 4.-5. November 2010, Klagenfurt Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 3. Project Ways4all Routing and way finding Indoor navigation Communication with public transport Integration in one device, a mobile phone This paper: a barrier free UI Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 4. User Centered Design Know your user Survey Interviews Personas Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 5. User Centered Design Result - concept for a user interface Textual interface Simple menus No extra screen reader Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 6. Prototyping Review with experts Iteration of the UI design Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 7. Implementation of the application Java ME platform Screen reader Talks First Results and problems Wrong UI components Not everything is read by a screen reader Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 8. Usability Engineering Expert reviews Usability testing Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 9. Refactoring of the UI Simplify the user input Every text information has to be readable Using High Level API Elements Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 10. Outlook SW Development is in progress New features Integration UI More reviews and tests Converting to other platforms like Android Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 11. Conclusion Developing for special user groups is challenging Know your user Use iterative interaction design to build a better mobile application Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.
- 12. Thanks for your Attention Elmar Krajnc elmar.krajnc@fh-joanneum.at Johannes Feiner johannes.feiner@fh-joanneum.at Stefan Schmidt stefan.schmidt.ITM07@fh-joanneum.at FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences www.fh-joanneum.at/itm Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.