CAREER: Document Layout and Formatting Helper for Blind Authors

职业：盲人作者的文档布局和格式设置助手

• 批准号: 1054984
• 负责人: Sri Kurniawan
• 金额: $ 51.66万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1054984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Document; Layout; Formatting; Helper

Most work on computer interaction for blind people focuses on these users as consumers, rather than creators, of information. Work on document creation specifically intended for blind people mainly concentrates on supporting general tasks associated with writing documents rather than on document formatting and layout, even though there is evidence that blind authors' documents are treated dismissively when they do not live up to "expected" standards of document presentation. Many blind authors therefore rely on sighted people to check their documents; consequently, they cannot be as productive as their sighted peers. The PI's goal in this project is to facilitate independence for blind authors in producing documents that meet the presentation standards expected by sighted readers. To these ends, the PI will develop an impact-weighted taxonomy of common document presentation errors of blind authors. She will explore blind authors' mental models and strategies for learning and coping, and how these models and strategies contribute to the success of independent document formatting and layout activities. And she will investigate the content-sharing and voting dynamics of blind authors. These findings will enable her to implement an integrated solution to document preparation for blind authors in the form of a Microsoft Word compatible formatting and layout checker, as well as a fix to the compatibility problems between Word's grammar and spell checkers and commonly used screen readers. And she will develop an accessible content-sharing environment for blind authors with an interface for sighted help from Amazon Mechanical Turk. To achieve her goals the PI will employ, among other techniques, participatory design with blind users and controlled experiments for investigating real-time non-visual presentation of grammar, spelling, formatting and layout statuses, errors and corrections (including through the use of haptic feedback and spatial sound).Broader Impacts: This research will naturally involve blind persons at almost all stages. Project outcomes will reduce the necessity for blind authors to rely on sighted help, thus affording increased independence and productivity to members of this community. The work will likely prove of value to the general population as well, for whom non-visual document presentation information can be of benefit in eyes-busy or phone-based interactions. The PI will conduct numerous educational and outreach activities in conjunction with this project, including distribution of the software tools developed to centers and schools for blind and visually impaired persons, and development of a multidisciplinary and multilevel (undergraduate and graduate) course aimed at both psychology and computer engineering students on "Designing Socio-technical Systems for People with Special Needs."

大多数针对盲人的计算机交互工作都将这些用户作为信息的消费者，而不是创造者。专门针对盲人的文档创建工作主要集中在支持与编写文档相关的一般任务，而不是文档的格式和布局，尽管有证据表明，盲人作者的文档在没有达到文档编排的“预期”标准时会受到轻视。因此，许多盲人作者依靠有视力的人来检查他们的文档；因此，他们不能像有视力的同龄人那样富有成效。该项目的目标是促进盲人作者在制作符合视力正常读者期望的呈现标准的文档时的独立性。为达到这些目的，国际倡议将对盲人作者常见的文件编排错误制定一个影响加权的分类法。她将探索盲人作者学习和应对的心理模型和策略，以及这些模型和策略如何有助于独立文档格式化和布局活动的成功。她还将调查盲人作者的内容分享和投票动态。这些发现将使她能够以Microsoft Word兼容的格式和布局检查器的形式为盲人作者实施文档准备的综合解决方案，并修复Word的语法和拼写检查器与常用屏幕阅读器之间的兼容性问题。她还将为盲人作者开发一个可访问的内容共享环境，并提供亚马逊机械土耳其人的视力帮助界面。为了实现她的目标，PI将采用与盲人用户的参与式设计和受控实验，以调查语法、拼写、格式和布局状态的实时非视觉呈现、错误和更正(包括通过使用触觉反馈和空间声音)。广泛的影响：这项研究自然会涉及几乎所有阶段的盲人。项目成果将减少盲人作者依赖有视力的帮助的必要性，从而为这个社区的成员提供更多的独立性和生产力。这项工作可能也会证明对普通民众有价值，对他们来说，非视觉文档演示信息可以在眼睛忙碌或基于电话的交互中受益。该中心将结合该项目开展大量的教育和外展活动，包括向盲人和视障人士中心和学校分发开发的软件工具，以及开发针对心理学和计算机工程专业学生的多学科、多层次(本科生和研究生)课程“为有特殊需要的人设计社会技术系统”。