by Horstmann, Mirko, Lorenz, Martin, Watkowski, Arthur, Ioannidis, George T., Herzog, Otthein, King, Alasdair, Evans, David G., Hagen, Cornelius, Schlieder, Christoph, Burn, Anne and King, Neil, Petrie, Helen, Dijkstra, Sijo and Crombie, David
Abstract:
The EU-supported TeDUB (Technical Drawings Understanding for the Blind) project is developing a software system that aims to make technical diagrams accessible to blind and visually impaired people. It consists of two separate modules: one that analyses drawings either semi-automatically or automatically, and one that presents the results of this analysis to blind people and allows them to interact with it. The system is capable of analysing and presenting diagrams from a number of formally defined domains. A diagram enters the system as one of two types: first, diagrams contained in bitmap images, which do not explicitly contain the semantic structure of their content and thus have to be interpreted by the system, and second, diagrams obtained in a semantically enriched format that already yields this structure. The TeDUB system provides blind users with an interface to navigate and annotate these diagrams using a number of input and output devices. Extensive user evaluations have been carried out and an overall positive response from the participants has shown the effectiveness of the approach.
Reference:
Horstmann, Mirko, Lorenz, Martin, Watkowski, Arthur, Ioannidis, George T., Herzog, Otthein, King, Alasdair, Evans, David G., Hagen, Cornelius, Schlieder, Christoph, Burn, Anne and King, Neil, Petrie, Helen, Dijkstra, Sijo and Crombie, David, "Automated interpretation and accessible presentation of technical diagrams for blind people", In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 141–163, 2004. ISSN: 1361-4568 (Paper) 1740-7842 (Online) http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1361-4568&volume=10&issue=2&spage=141 http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=1740-7842&volume=10&issue=2&spage=141
Bibtex Entry:
@ARTICLE{Horstmann2004a,
author = {Horstmann, Mirko and Lorenz, Martin and Watkowski, Arthur and Ioannidis,
George T. and Herzog, Otthein and King, Alasdair and Evans, David
G. and Hagen, Cornelius and Schlieder, Christoph and Burn, Anne and
King, Neil and Petrie, Helen and Dijkstra, Sijo and Crombie, David},
title = {Automated interpretation and accessible presentation of technical
diagrams for blind people},
journal = {New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia},
year = {2004},
volume = {10},
pages = {141--163},
number = {2},
month = {December},
note = {ISSN: 1361-4568 (Paper) 1740-7842 (Online) http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=1361-4568{\&}volume=10{\&}issue=2{\&}spage=141
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}eissn=1740-7842{\&}volume=10{\&}issue=2{\&}spage=141},
abstract = {The EU-supported TeDUB (Technical Drawings Understanding for the Blind)
project is developing a software system that aims to make technical
diagrams accessible to blind and visually impaired people. It consists
of two separate modules: one that analyses drawings either semi-automatically
or automatically, and one that presents the results of this analysis
to blind people and allows them to interact with it. The system is
capable of analysing and presenting diagrams from a number of formally
defined domains. A diagram enters the system as one of two types:
first, diagrams contained in bitmap images, which do not explicitly
contain the semantic structure of their content and thus have to
be interpreted by the system, and second, diagrams obtained in a
semantically enriched format that already yields this structure.
The TeDUB system provides blind users with an interface to navigate
and annotate these diagrams using a number of input and output devices.
Extensive user evaluations have been carried out and an overall positive
response from the participants has shown the effectiveness of the
approach.},
doi = {10.1080/13614560512331326017},
issn = {1361-4568},
owner = {pmania},
timestamp = {2012.11.06},
url = {http://www.tzi.de/~mlo/download/iswc04-mlo-mir-submitted.pdf}
}