Accessible smartphones for blind users: A case study for a wayfinding system
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Highlights：
• A universal solution to manage a smartphone and a wayfinding application in an autonomous way.
• People with visual impairments prefer fixed regions instead of menu browsing in UIs.
• The usefulness of the vibration feedback is based on distance and directional information.
• The users feel more comfortable with the messages of physical references.
• The accuracy of the application is 1–3 m for physical references in routes.
摘要
•A universal solution to manage a smartphone and a wayfinding application in an autonomous way.•People with visual impairments prefer fixed regions instead of menu browsing in UIs.•The usefulness of the vibration feedback is based on distance and directional information.•The users feel more comfortable with the messages of physical references.•The accuracy of the application is 1–3 m for physical references in routes.
论文关键词：Accessibility,Visually impaired users,User interfaces,Touch screens,Wayfinding
论文评审过程：Available online 1 June 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.05.031
