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Exploring Low-Cost Materials to Make Pattern-Based Lock-Screens Accessible for Users with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness

  • Nowadays, the wide majority of Europeans uses smartphones. However, touch displays are still not accessible by everyone. Individuals with deafblindness, for example, often face difculties in accessing vision-based touchscreens. Moreover, they typically have few fnancial resources which increases the need for customizable, low-cost assistive devices. In this work-in-progress, we present fourNowadays, the wide majority of Europeans uses smartphones. However, touch displays are still not accessible by everyone. Individuals with deafblindness, for example, often face difculties in accessing vision-based touchscreens. Moreover, they typically have few fnancial resources which increases the need for customizable, low-cost assistive devices. In this work-in-progress, we present four prototypes made from low-cost, every-day materials, that make modern pattern lock mechanisms more accessible to individuals with vision impairments or even with deafblindness. Two out of four prototypes turned out to be functional tactile overlays for accessing digital 4-by-4 grids that are regularly used to encode dynamic dot patterns. In future work, we will conduct a user study investigating whether these two prototypes can make dot-based pattern lock mechanisms more accessible for individuals with visual impairments or deafblindness.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Conference Type:Konferenzartikel
Zitierlink: https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/4365
Bibliografische Angaben
Title (English):Exploring Low-Cost Materials to Make Pattern-Based Lock-Screens Accessible for Users with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness
Conference:International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (22. : October 2020 : Virtual Event, Greece)
Author:Lea BuchweitzStaff MemberGND, Arthur TheilStaff MemberORCiD, James GayStaff Member, Oliver KornStaff MemberORCiDGND
Year of Publication:2020
Creating Corporation:Association for Computing Machinery
Place of publication:New York
Publisher:ACM Press
Page Number:4
First Page:Artikel 69
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’20)
Editor:Tiago Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau, Karyn Moffatt
ISBN:978-1-4503-7103-2
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418020
Language:English
Inhaltliche Informationen
Institutes:Forschung / ACI - Affective and Cognitive Institute
Fakultät Medien und Informationswesen (M+I) (bis 21.04.2021)
Institutes:Bibliografie
Tag:Assistive Technology; Deafblindness; Textile; Touch; Wearables
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Open Access: Closed Access 
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt