Research on End-User Requirements with Application to Wayfinding Technologies
Jim Marston Research Unit on Spatial Cognition and Choice Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
* Subject selection and factors to be considered: age, degree of vision, other impairments, use of a control group.
* Evaluation measures: task error variables, subjective measures of success, user suggestions, open-ended questions.
* Additional suggestions for "real-world" experiments: safety, preparedness, equipment problems, precautions, special needs and adaptations.
* Clear and objective evaluation of findings, including negative findings and methodological problems.
* Determining what information different groups of blind and visually impaired people want to support travel.
* Case study example.
ICT for Deaf Users in Developing Regions, A South African case study.
Bill Tucker, Department of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape and Meryl Glaser, Sign Language Education and Development, South Africa
* The deaf/Deaf community.
* Telephony needs of the deaf/Deaf community.
* Social and technical factors
* Impact criteria for social factors.
* Telephony design and development in ‘developing’ countries.
* Designing specific devices for Deaf people or adapting existing systems.
Designing Assistive Technology to Support Independent Travel for Blind and Visually Impaired People Marion Hersh, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland and Edwige Pissaloux, Université Pierre et Paris Curie Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, France * Basic principles of cognitive mapping of space and independent travel. * A brief overview and categorisation of existing modelling approaches to the travel process. * Understanding the travel process: a new process based model * Brief overview of principles and practice of indoor and outdoor wayfinding. * Understanding assistive navigation devices. * Case study example.