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SUMMARY:Alternative notations and personal information management - Silas 
 Brown
DTSTART:20050616T131500Z
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CONTACT:dke22
DESCRIPTION:I will rehearse two presentations which I will give at the Uni
 versal Access in HCI strand of the HCI International conference 2005.  The
 se are "Supporting the user's design of alternative complex notations" and
  "Usable Personal Information Management techniques for people with low vi
 sion".\n\nOne way to facilitate the accessibility of complex documents is 
 to transcribe them into notations that are more suited to presentation on 
 the user's preferred output device(s)\, whether they are visual or not. Us
 ers sometimes prefer to design their own notations for this purpose\, part
 icularly in the educational subjects that have no widely-used standard for
  performing such transcription. We have developed a software framework tha
 t can assist users to design their own complex notations\; it can also be 
 used for assisting the development of converters for standard notations. T
 he framework is domain-independent\, but we demonstrate it by giving examp
 les of its use in mathematics and diagrams\, using both visual and non-vis
 ual interaction.\n\nA method and tool is presented that assists with organ
 ising people's personal notes and other information from inside a wordproc
 essor. It is usable on a small display and by people who are blind or who 
 have low vision\, as well as by others\, and is also an example applicatio
 n of the 4DML transformation system. The basic principle is to allow the u
 ser to annotate parts of the text with labels and then group together any 
 parts of the text that have the same label.  The tool is experimentally ev
 aluated\, and refinements are reported on.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room\, Computer Laboratory
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