This is a demo of somebody using an iPhone without any visual feedback.
From their paper they pre-rendered all the audio on a PC ala iPod Nano
and downloaded the snippets to the iPhone to be used by their software.
Description:
As theuser drags their finger down the surface you can hear 'phone,
music, mail' and then they make a gesture with their finger to open up
the phonebook. The gesture is tapping with a second finger while
continuing to point to the object to take action on. Next they drag down
the surface and you hear it announce entries in the phone book. Doing
the same two-finger gesture calls the name just announced. They flick
straight up to go home. In mail they drag down the list and then flick
left to reply to the message. In music they drag down to hear the
artists and then drag right to hear songs under a particular artist.
They flick right to change tracks. Double-tap to pause.
CB
David Poehlman wrote:
what is this a demo of?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Blouch" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: iPhone Accessibility
The Youtube demo is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=496IAx6_xys
There video is not described but basically the screen is blank and
everything they touch gets announced as their finger drags over the
iPhone's surface. Then a second finger is used to gesture that you want
to do something with thing just announced. Slick. Wonder when this will
move out of the labs.
CB
Victor Tsaran wrote:
Also, if you search for a university research project called
"Sliderule", you may just find something interesting. There is a also
a video demoing this technology on Youtube.
On 1/9/2009 10:01 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Not sure if you all are familiar with these three articles regarding
iPhone / cellular accessibility. These are courtesy of a post on another
list.
"Here is something that I saw last month about a possible solution for
the current iPhone.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/silicon-touch-an-iphone-case-for-the-visually-impaired/
Here is something that's been around for a while but doesn't seem to
have developed much.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/apple-envisions-tactility-on-touchscreen-keyboards/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/06/nokia-shows-off-haptikos-tactile-touch-screen-technology/
"
Thanks,
Everett
