Enhancing Worker Digital Experience: A Hands-on Workshop for Partners
Audio adr (sarat koneti 2011 12-01)
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
Directional speakers for interface kiosk Increased accessibility through use of new audio features to aid impaired users in the following areas visibility, sensory & cognitive Audio option for multiple language audio translations New audio feedback for interactive buttons within interface design