Accessibility for Meeting Rooms for Visually Impaired People

视障用户参与协同定位的团队工作会话受到不可访问的模式的阻碍，例如非语言交流和人工产物的模拟视觉表示。如果相关对象在空间上分布在桌子上或上方--无论是不是交互式表面--或在房间里，这个问题就会变得更加严重。在这个项目中，我们建议通过以ICT为中心的方法回答以下研究问题，为视障用户提供更公平地参与会议和做出贡献的研究支持：·捕获什么？-识别、优先排序和分析不可访问的重要模式。·如何捕获和预处理？-生成重要模式的抽象和可处理的内部表示。·如何说得通？-概念化并实现解释可处理表示所需的推理。·如何呈现？-通过可获得的模式呈现解释的信息，特别是：已建立的模式，如盲文和语音以及创新的表现手段，如有形物品。·如何操作？-通过：已建立的模式，如键盘和自动语音识别，以及创新模式，如有形物品和头部跟踪，为更自主和无缝的参与提供接口。该项目将导致对不可获得的模式--在地面、地面和室内使用--进行彻底的系统了解。它将提供处理使用这些模式处理的信息、呈现信息并通过可访问的模式使其可用的概念。这将使视障用户与有视力的参与者更无缝、更平等地参与协作、共同定位的团队合作会议。

Participation of visually impaired users in co-located teamwork sessions is impeded by inaccessible modalities, such as non-verbal communication and analog visual representations of artifacts. This problem is aggravated if relevant objects are spatially distributed on or above a table – be it an interactive surface or not – or in a room.In this project we propose to research support for visually impaired users to participate in and contribute to meetings more equally, by answering the following research questions with ICT centered approaches:• What to Capture? – Identifying, prioritizing, and analyzing inaccessible modalities of importance.• How to Capture and Pre-Process? – Generating an abstract and processable internal representation of important modalities.• How to Make Sense? – Conceptualizing and realizing the reasoning necessary for interpreting the processable representation. • How to Render? – Presenting the interpreted information via accessible modalities, specifically: established modalities, e.g. Braille and speech and innovative means of representation, e.g. tangibles.• How to Manipulate? – Providing interfaces for a more autonomous and seamless participation, via: established modalities, e.g. keyboard and automatic speech recognition and innovative modalities, e.g. tangibles and head-tracking.The project will lead to a thorough systematic understanding of inaccessible modalities – employed on-surface, above-surface and in-room. It will deliver concepts for processing the information handled using these modalities, for rendering it and making it usable via accessible modalities. This will lead to a considerably more seamless and equal participation of visually impaired users in collaborative, co-located teamwork sessions with sighted participants.