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 Research1. 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

Questionnaire script:

1. What do you think this kiosk is for?

2. Let them do the interaction and then ask about the experience

3. Do you think the kiosk has served its purpose?

4. Do you think you would use this again?

5. How likely are you to use it again? very likely likely unlikely very unlikely

6. How do you rate your experience of using this kiosk? very good good bad very bad

• Use of directional sound system

to listen to the Audio

• Language translations for Audio

• Interactive Audio features for

Navigation

Target for Development

Listed features and areas of the existing system we will target for development

Concepts for possible new accessibility enhancement and development

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