Berglind Smaradottir
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Norway
Jarle Håland
Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Norway
Santiago Martinez
Department of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Norway
Åsmund Rodvig Somdal
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Norway
Rune Fensli
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Norway
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Ingår i: SHI 2015, Proceedings from The 13th Scandinavien Conference on Health Informatics, June 15-17, 2015, Tromsø, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 115:7, s. 41-46
Mobile technologies’ touchscreen allows the use of choreography of gestures to interact with the user interface. Relevant aspects in mobile technology design become crucial when targeting users with disabilities. For instance, when assistive technology is designed to support speech interaction between visually impaired users and a system, accessibility and easeof-use of such technology should be included in the usability and technical evaluation of their effectiveness. This paper presents the analysis of the technical and physical infrastructure of a controlled laboratory environment for user evaluations made in the research project “Visually impaired users touching the screen - A user evaluation of assistive technology” where VoiceOver, a screen reader in Apple Inc. products was tested. The paper reports on challenges related to the use of the test infrastructure, such as how to obtain valuable data when interactive high-speed gestures are performed and how to optimise the recording and synchronisation between audio and video data. The lessons learned by the research group showed that there are effective alternatives for each challenge, and these should be customised for each particular test, type of participants and device.
EInclusion; visually impaired users; speechassisted navigation; touch gestures; accessibility; assistive technology; laboratory infrastructure; usability; health informatics
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