1. Turning the Pages Touch Screen
Interface
British Library Audio ADR
Sarat Koneti

2. 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

3. 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

4. Existing Interface
Right now we are just concentrating on the audio problems of the
Interface/Kisosk

5. Audio problems of the existing interface
• Use of Headphone
• No audio clues for visual actions
• No audio translations for the books
• No volume controller

6. User Group
• International and Multicultural Audience
• Age group: 7 -75years
Target User Group
• People with cognitive limitations(ex: autism, down syndrome)

7. User Research
1. 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

8. Our Goals
• Use of directional sound system to listen to the Audio
• Language translations for Audio
• Interactive Audio features for Navigation

9. Concepts for possible new accessibility
enhancement and development

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