usab10 user centered interaction design for mobile applications focused on visually impaired and...

Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.

Take out your mobile phone,

dial a number,

but imagine you are blind.

Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.

User Centered Interaction Designfor Mobile ApplicationsFocused on Visually Impaired and Blind People

Elmar Krajnc, Johannes Feiner, Stefan SchmidtUSAB 2010, 4.-5. November 2010, Klagenfurt

Krajnc E., Feiner J., Schmidt S.

Project Ways4all

� Routing and way finding

� Indoor navigation

� Communication with public transport

� Integration in one device, a mobile phone

� This paper: a barrier free UI

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User Centered Design

� Know your user

� Survey

� Interviews

� Personas

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User Centered Design

� Result - concept for a user interface

� Textual interface

� Simple menus

� No extra screen reader

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Prototyping

� Review withexperts

� Iteration of the UI design

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Implementation of the application

� Java ME platform

� Screen reader Talks

� First Results and problems

� Wrong UI components

� Not everything is read by a screen reader

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Usability Engineering

� Expert reviews

� Usability testing

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Refactoring of the UI

� Simplify the user input

� Every text information has to be readable

� Using High Level APIElements

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Outlook

� SW Development is in progress

� New features

� Integration UI

� More reviews and tests

� Converting to other platforms like Android

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Conclusion

� Developing for special user groups is challenging

� Know your user

� Use iterative interaction design to build a better mobile application

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Thanks for your Attention

Elmar Krajncelmar.krajnc@fh-joanneum.at

Johannes Feinerjohannes.feiner@fh-joanneum.at

Stefan Schmidt stefan.schmidt.ITM07@fh-joanneum.at

FH JOANNEUMUniversity of Applied Sciences

www.fh-joanneum.at/itm