Helping People with Visual Impairments Gain Access to Graphical Information Through Natural Language: The iGraph System

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• 作者：Leo Ferres ; Avi Parush ; Shelley Roberts ; Gitte Lindgaard
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：4061
• 期：1
• 页码：1122-1130
• 全文大小：295 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

Much numerical information is visualized in graphs. However, this is a medium that is problematic for people with visual impairments. We have developed a system called iGraph which provides short verbal descriptions of the information usually depicted in graphs. This system was used as a preliminary solution that was validated through a process of User Needs Analysis (UNA). This process provided some basic data on the needs of people with visual impairments in terms of the components and the language to be used for graph comprehension and also validated our initial approach. The UNA provided important directions for the further development of iGraph particularly in terms of interactive querying of graphs.