TextSL: a command-based virtual world interface for the visually impaired Export

@inproceedings{@inproceedings{1639654, author = {Folmer, Eelke and Yuan, Bei and Carr, Dave and Sapre, Manjari}, title = {TextSL: a command-based virtual world interface for the visually impaired}, booktitle = {ASSETS '09: Proceeding of the eleventh international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility}, year = {2009}, isbn = {978-1-60558-558-1}, pages = {59--66}, location = {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639642.1639654}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, }, abstract = {The immersive graphics, large amount of user-generated content, and social interaction opportunities offered by popular virtual worlds, such as Second Life, could eventually make for a more interactive and informative World Wide Web. Unfortunately, virtual worlds are currently not accessible to users who are visually impaired. This paper presents the work on developing TextSL, a client for Second life that can be accessed with a screen reader. Users interact with TextSL using a command-based interface, which allows for performing a plethora of different actions on large numbers of objects and avatars; characterizing features of such virtual worlds. User studies confirm that a command-based interface is a feasible approach towards making virtual worlds accessible, as it allows screen reader users to explore Second Life, communicate with other avatars, and interact with objects as well as sighted users. Command-based exploration and object interaction is significantly slower, but communication can be performed with the same efficiency as in the Second Life viewer. We further identify that at least 31\% of the objects in Second Life lack a descriptive name, which is a significant barrier towards making virtual worlds accessible to users who are visually impaired.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Folmer, Eelke and Yuan, Bei and Carr, Dave and Sapre, Manjari}, booktitle = {ASSETS '09: Proceeding of the eleventh international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility}, citeulike-article-id = {6049571}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1639642.1639654}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1639642.1639654}, doi = {10.1145/1639642.1639654}, isbn = {978-1-60558-558-1}, keywords = {accessibility, audio, blind, impairments, virtual, visually, worlds}, location = {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA}, pages = {59--66}, posted-at = {2009-10-31 17:55:25}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {TextSL: a command-based virtual world interface for the visually impaired}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1639642.1639654}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - @inproceedings{1639654, author = {Folmer, Eelke and Yuan, Bei and Carr, Dave and Sapre, Manjari}, title = {TextSL: a command-based virtual world interface for the visually impaired}, booktitle = {ASSETS '09: Proceeding of the eleventh international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility}, year = {2009}, isbn = {978-1-60558-558-1}, pages = {59--66}, location = {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639642.1639654}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, } L3 - citeulike-article-id:6049571 N2 - The immersive graphics, large amount of user-generated content, and social interaction opportunities offered by popular virtual worlds, such as Second Life, could eventually make for a more interactive and informative World Wide Web. Unfortunately, virtual worlds are currently not accessible to users who are visually impaired. This paper presents the work on developing TextSL, a client for Second life that can be accessed with a screen reader. Users interact with TextSL using a command-based interface, which allows for performing a plethora of different actions on large numbers of objects and avatars; characterizing features of such virtual worlds. User studies confirm that a command-based interface is a feasible approach towards making virtual worlds accessible, as it allows screen reader users to explore Second Life, communicate with other avatars, and interact with objects as well as sighted users. Command-based exploration and object interaction is significantly slower, but communication can be performed with the same efficiency as in the Second Life viewer. We further identify that at least 31% of the objects in Second Life lack a descriptive name, which is a significant barrier towards making virtual worlds accessible to users who are visually impaired. CY - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA SN - 978-1-60558-558-1 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 66 TI - TextSL: a command-based virtual world interface for the visually impaired PB - ACM T2 - ASSETS '09: Proceeding of the eleventh international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility SP - 59 KW - accessibility KW - audio KW - blind KW - impairments KW - virtual KW - visually KW - worlds AU - Folmer, Eelke AU - Yuan, Bei AU - Carr, Dave AU - Sapre, Manjari PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1639642.1639654 ER -