Supporting Cross-Modal Collaboration in the Workplace

We address the challenge of supporting collaborators who access a shared interactive space through different sets of modalities. This was achieved by designing a cross-modal tool combining a visual diagram editor with auditory and haptic views to allow simultaneous visual and non–visual interaction. The tool was deployed in various workplaces where visually-impaired and sighted coworkers access and edit diagrams as part of their daily jobs. We use our observations and analyses of the recorded interactions to outline preliminary design recommendations for supporting cross-modal collaboration.

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Contributors

Oussama Metatla

Nick Bryan-Kinns

Tony Stockman

Fiore Martin

Conference

Publication date: September 2012

Publication date (Print): September 2012

Pages: 109-118

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[0001]School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Queen Mary University of London

Mile End road, London, E1 4NS, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.16

SO-VID: e1903994-ff54-4f33-98d9-ab2a356af0cf

Copyright statement: © Oussama Metatla et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK

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Conference name: The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 26

Conference location: Birmingham, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 September 2012

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Supporting Cross-Modal Collaboration in the Workplace

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