audio adr (sarat koneti 2011 12-01)

Turning the Pages Touch Screen InterfaceBritish Library Audio ADR

Sarat Koneti

Brief

Making the British library interface more accessible to people with the cognitive limitations /intellectually disabled by embedding new audio features to BL-Kiosk

Improving the user experience using Audio

Audio ADR Strategy

• Research on existing BL-Kiosk• Find user audio problems• Define User Goals• Critically analyse and asses the concept ideas to improve

accessibility & user experience of the Kiosk• List all possible audio features • Produce initial visuals/audio of concept deliverables (mp3

files, sketches, recordings)• Sketch/wireframe NEW interface with audio for screen

solutions • Create diagrams and prototypes

Existing Interface

Right now we are just concentrating on the audio problems of the Interface/Kisosk

Audio problems of the existing interface

• Use of Headphone• No audio clues for visual actions• No audio translations for the books• No volume controller

User Group

• International and Multicultural Audience

• Age group: 7 -75years

Target User Group• People with cognitive limitations(ex: autism, down syndrome)

User Research

1. Accessibility

• Proportion of people in the general population with special needs is high.

• Accessibility refers to the degree to which software can be used �comfortably by a wide variety of people, including those who have cognitive limitations and disabilities.

• � 3 types - profound / severe / moderate / mild

• MILD/MODERATE :

Problems in reading

Problems in communicating

Suffer from memory loss

Troubles in solving problems

Limited understanding of day – day process

• Use of directional sound system to listen to the Audio

• Language translations for Audio

• Interactive Audio features for Navigation

Our Goals

Concepts for possible new accessibility enhancement and development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dL18JdduuhA