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Pub. period:2005-2010
Pub. count:7
Number of co-authors:9



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Wai Yu:5
Graham McAllister:5
Ravi Kuber:4

 

 

Productive colleagues

Emma Murphy's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Wai Yu:22
Ravi Kuber:13
Antti Pirhonen:11
 
 
 
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2010
 
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Murphy, Emma, Bates, Enda and Fitzpatrick, Donal (2010): Designing auditory cues to enhance spoken mathematics for visually impaired users. In: Twelfth Annual ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies 2010. pp. 75-82.

“Visual mathematic notation provides a succinct and unambiguous description of the structure of mathematical formulae in a manner that is difficult to replicate through the linear channels of synthesized speech and Braille. It is proposed that the use of auditory cues can enhance accessibility to mathematical material and reduce common ambiguities encountered through spoken mathematics. However, the use of additional complex hierarchies of non-speech sounds to represent the structure and scope of equations may be cognitively demanding to process. This can detract from the users' understanding of the mathematical content. In this paper, a new system is presented, which uses a mixture of non-speech auditory cues, modified speech (spearcons) and binaural spatialization to disambiguate the structure of mathematical formulae. A design study, involving an online survey with 56 users, was undertaken to evaluate an existing set of auditory cues and to brainstorm alternative ideas and solutions from users before implementing modified designs and conducting a separate controlled evaluation. It is proposed that by involving a wide number of users in the creative design process, intuitive auditory cues will be implemented with the potential to enhance spoken mathematics for visually impaired users.”

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Murphy, Emma, Kuber, Ravi, McAllister, Graham, Strain, Philip and Yu, Wai (2008): An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 7 (1) pp. 79-91.

“In this paper, an empirical based study is described which has been conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the visually impaired community when accessing the Web. The study, involving 30 blind and partially sighted computer users, has identified navigation strategies, perceptions of page layout and graphics using assistive devices such as screen readers. Analysis of the data has revealed that current assistive technologies impose navigational constraints and provide limited information on web page layout. Conveying additional spatial information could enhance the exploration process for visually impaired Internet users. It could also assist the process of collaboration between blind and sighted users when performing web-based tasks. The findings from the survey have informed the development of a non-visual interface, which uses the benefits of multimodal technologies to present spatial and navigational cues to the user.”

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Murphy, Emma, Kuber, Ravi, McAllister, Graham, Strain, Philip and Yu, Wai (2008): An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users. In Universal Access in the Information Society, 7 (1) pp. 79-91.

“In this paper, an empirical based study is described which has been conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the visually impaired community when accessing the Web. The study, involving 30 blind and partially sighted computer users, has identified navigation strategies, perceptions of page layout and graphics using assistive devices such as screen readers. Analysis of the data has revealed that current assistive technologies impose navigational constraints and provide limited information on web page layout. Conveying additional spatial information could enhance the exploration process for visually impaired Internet users. It could also assist the process of collaboration between blind and sighted users when performing web-based tasks. The findings from the survey have informed the development of a non-visual interface, which uses the benefits of multimodal technologies to present spatial and navigational cues to the user.”

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Pirhonen, Antti, Tuuri, Kai, Mustonen, Manne-Sakari and Murphy, Emma (2007): Beyond Clicks and Beeps: In Pursuit of an Effective Sound Design Methodology. In: Oakley, Ian and Brewster, Stephen A. (eds.) HAID 2007 - Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - Second International Workshop November 29-30, 2007, Seoul, South Korea. pp. 133-144.

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Murphy, Emma, Pirhonen, Antti, McAllister, Graham and Yu, Wai (2006): A Semiotic Approach to the Design of Non-speech Sounds. In: McGookin, David K. and Brewster, Stephen A. (eds.) HAID 2006 - Haptic and Audio Interaction Design - First International Workshop August 31 - September 1, 2006, Glasgow, UK. pp. 121-132.

 
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Yu, Wai, Kuber, Ravi, Murphy, Emma, Strain, Philip and McAllister, Graham (2006): A novel multimodal interface for improving visually impaired people's web accessibility. In Virtual Reality, 9 (2) pp. 133-148.

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Yu, Wai, McAllister, Graham, Strain, Philip, Kuber, Ravi and Murphy, Emma (2005): Improving web accessibility using content-aware plug-ins. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1893-1896.

“This paper describes a novel approach to improve blind and visually impaired people's access to the Web by using a content-aware Web browser plug-in coupled with audio and haptic tools. The Web plug-in accesses the current mouse position on-screen, and makes the co-ordinates available to the audio and haptic modalities. This allows the user to be informed when they are in the vicinity of an image or hyperlink; previously they would only have been informed when they are physically on the link. Thus, when the user is close to an image or hyperlink, haptics and audio will be used to inform and guide them to the actual spatial position. The Web browser plug-in and the associated audio and haptic feedback tools are described in the paper. Finally, results from a pilot study on the usability of this system are also presented.”

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Publication statistics

Pub. period:2005-2010
Pub. count:7
Number of co-authors:9



Co-authors

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Wai Yu:5
Graham McAllister:5
Ravi Kuber:4

 

 

Productive colleagues

Emma Murphy's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Wai Yu:22
Ravi Kuber:13
Antti Pirhonen:11
 
 
 
Jun 19

“ ... there are no simple 'right' answers for most web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ”

-- Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, p. 136

 
 

Featured chapter

Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann

Read Steve's chapter !

 
 

Latest books

The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building technologies for communities
by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad

 
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The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
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