Animated Icons as an Assistant During Interaction Between a Graphical User Interface and the Legally Blind/Partially Sighted

动画图标作为图形用户界面与盲人/弱视者交互期间的助手

• 批准号: 9978183
• 负责人: Michael Wagner
• 金额: $ 15.81万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-15 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9978183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Animated; Icons; Assistant; During; Interaction

This project addresses the needs of the legally blind to interact with information systems that utilize graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The research focuses on the study of descriptive animated icons and the development of a framework to enable GUI developers to more effectively address the icon recognition process utilized by the legally blind when designing interface layout and functionality. In an initial study the PIs will determine optimal sizes for icons, animated as well as non-animated, that are perceived by individuals whose visual acuity is in the range of 20/200 to 20/800. This study will result in a heuristic that will allow them to describe the means by which legally blind computer users interact with a GUI. The PIs will then design a library of animated icons which will serve as a foundation in the development of GUIs that are accessible to the legally blind. A proof-of-concept application will be developed and evaluated using this technology, in order to provide information on how to properly integrate animated icons into a GUI to achieve the stated goals. The PIs expect the icon library developed as part of this project to be applicable to a wide variety of application domains, and that the use of properly sized, descriptive animated icons in GUIs will help the increasing legally blind population to access information in electronic form.

该项目旨在满足法定盲人与使用图形用户界面的信息系统互动的需求。 研究的重点是描述性的动画图标的研究和开发的框架，使GUI开发人员能够更有效地解决图标识别过程中使用的法律盲人在设计界面布局和功能。 在最初的研究中，PI将确定图标的最佳尺寸，动画以及非动画，由视力在20/200至20/800范围内的个人感知。 这项研究将导致一个启发式，将允许他们描述的手段，法律上失明的计算机用户与GUI的互动。 然后，PI将设计一个动画图标库，该库将作为开发可供法定盲人使用的图形用户界面的基础。 将利用这一技术开发和评估一个概念验证应用程序，以便提供关于如何将动画图标适当地集成到GUI中以实现所述目标的信息。 项目负责人希望作为该项目一部分开发的图标库适用于各种各样的应用领域，并希望在图形用户界面中使用大小适当的描述性动画图标，将有助于越来越多的法定盲人获取电子形式的信息。