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SIG: NVI (Non-Visual Interaction) SIG: NVI (Non-Visual Interaction) Anke M. Brock Tiago Guerreiro Abstract IRIT University of Lisbon In recent years there has been a surge in the Université Toulouse & CNRS Campo Grande, C1, 1.312 development of non-visual interaction techniques 118 Route de Narbonne 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal targeting two application areas: making content 31062 Toulouse, France [email protected] accessible to visually impaired people, and supporting [email protected] minimal attention user interfaces for on-the-go mobile users. This SIG aims to bring together the community Slim Kammoun Shaun K. Kane of researchers exploring non-visual interaction IRIT UMBC techniques. The SIG will bring members of this Université Toulouse & CNRS 1000 Hilltop Circle burgeoning community together in a lively discussion 118 Route de Narbonne Baltimore, MD 21250 USA and brainstorming session. Attendees will work to 31062 Toulouse, France [email protected] identify and report current and future research [email protected] challenges, and to identify future directions of this research area. Hugo Nicolau Christophe Jouffrais IST / Technical University of IRIT Author Keywords Lisbon / INESC-ID CNRS & Université Toulouse Non-visual interaction, blindness, visual impairment, R. Alves Redol, 9 118 Route de Narbonne situational impairment, accessibility, haptic, audio, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal 31062 Toulouse, France gestural interaction. [email protected] [email protected] ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2. [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces; K.4.2. [Computers and Society]: Social Issues - Assistive Technologies for Persons with Disabilities Introduction Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). In a recent fact sheet, the WHO reports that 285 million CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. people are visually impaired worldwide [15]. Improving ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. access to information and technology for visually 1 impaired people is thus a significant challenge for HCI users,” and has featured papers on NVI for both researchers and practitioners. Non-visual interaction visually impaired and sighted users. Second, CHI is a techniques have been explored for many years, and regularly-occurring and global event, whereas few of typically leverage non-visual modalities such as the accessibility oriented conferences unite community gestural interaction [10,11], haptic feedback [9], members on a global level. Third, CHI is not focused touch-screens with tactile overlays [5] or auditory exclusively on accessibility, and provides opportunities interfaces [12,16]. Non-visual interaction techniques to connect accessibility researchers with non- may address many different aspects of human- accessibility-oriented NVI researchers. Fourth, CHI computer interaction, including browsing the internet attracts practitioners with a variety of perspectives, [1], text entry [13], indoor and outdoor navigation who may make important contributions to this [2,7], games [14], crowd-based questions and answers transversal field. Given the prevalence of visual [4], and even photography [8]. Besides accessibility for interaction and the relative obscurity of non-visual visually impaired people, non-visual interaction (NVI) interfaces, technical disruption may be required to can also aid sighted people, such as situationally improve NVI, and a CHI SIG provides a rich impaired mobile device users, [6] or when interacting environment for creating such disruption. with augmented reality systems [3]. The aim of the SIG will be to bring together and Much work on non-visual HCI has come from the reinforce the research community working on NVI. We accessibility community. Several international hope to create new synergies, identify future conferences address accessibility issues in HCI (e.g., challenges, and potentially highlight the importance of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and accessibility for visually impaired people. Accessibility, and the Springer International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs). Invited Participants However, these conferences focus broadly on Our aim is to bring together the community of accessibility issues, and do not specifically focus on researchers and practitioners working on non-visual non-visual interaction or HCI. Other conferences, such interaction. This includes interaction for visually as MobileHCI, sometimes address NVI in mobile impaired people, as well as non-visual interaction for contexts, but also feature only a subset of the broader sighted people. community. We plan to invite known members of the community We believe that CHI is the ideal venue for bringing personally by mail. Furthermore, we will create a together the community of researchers and Facebook event and website for advertising the SIG. practitioners exploring NVI, for the following reasons. The SIG event will be open to all, but those who wish to First, NVI for visually impaired and sighted users is of present during the session will be asked to send in a interest to the CHI community. CHI 2012 featured a short description of their main work areas before the paper session entitled “Supporting visually impaired conference. 2 Schedule of this SIG CHI Meeting 2. Which are the future challenges that we expect The aim of this SIG is to discuss how to create and in our field and how can we face them? (20 maintain the community of NVI, and to identify future minutes) research challenges and directions. The SIG will be 3. Do we want to organize a workshop for CHI open to anyone. It will be most relevant to researchers, 2014? (15 minutes) practitioners or people interested in the field of non- visual interactions. We think that by working together 15 minutes: Working groups report back; summary we can connect technologies and ideas to identify the of the event and next steps. opportunities and challenges towards more accessible interactions. Post-CHI Activities After CHI, we will sum up the discussion and share the The organization and schedule of this SIG will be as results with the broader community via publication on follows: the SIGACCESS newsletter or ACM Interactions. We will 5 minutes: introduction to the SIG, presentation of also follow up on a discussion board, which will be used the objectives and schedule. to plan activities for this community in 2014 and 10 minutes: moderators will give a brief beyond. Our aim is to implement a regular meeting of presentation in order to give an overview of the community members at venues such as CHI and field and introduce the discussion topics ASSETS. An additional objective is the organization of a workshop on NVI for CHI 2014. Brainstorming session (50 min): if less than 20 participants, attendees present themselves. Groups References of participants based on a selection of shared interests will be created. Moderators will structure 1. Asakawa, C. What’s the web like if you can't see it? W4A ’05: Proceedings of the 2005 International the ideas according to different discussion topics Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility, (sensory modalities, specific user groups, type of ACM (2005), 1–8. application, etc.). Groups will be encouraged (but not required) to discuss three primary questions, 2. Azenkot, S., Ladner, R.E., and Wobbrock, J.O. Smartphone haptic feedback for nonvisual developed by the organizers: wayfinding. Proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and 1. Do we want to create an official community accessibility - ASSETS ’11, (2011). and how can we keep this community alive? Do 3. Bau, O., Poupyrev, I., Le Goc, M., Galliot, L., and we want to create sub communities (for Glisson, M. REVEL: tactile feedback technology for instance for projects addressing visually augmented reality. ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging impaired people) or do we want to reunite the Technologies on - SIGGRAPH ’12, ACM Press whole NVI community? (15 minutes) (2012), 1–1. 3 4. Bigham, J.P., White, S., Yeh, T., et al. VizWiz: Access Overlays: Improving Non-Visual Access to Nearly real-time answers to visual questions. Large Touch Screens for Blind Users. Proceedings Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User on User interface software and technology - UIST interface software and technology - UIST ’11, ACM ’10, ACM Press (2010), 333. 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