Design Tactile Interfaces with Vibration Patterns in HTML5 for Smartphone Users with Visual Impairments

9 Pages Posted: 28 Mar 2019

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George Kokkonis

Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences

Vasileios Moysiadis

Univeristy of Western Macedonia

Theofano Kollatou

Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences

Sotirios Kontogiannis

University of Ioannina

Date Written: February 28, 2019

Abstract

This paper describes the procedure for creating tactile interfaces for Android smart phones. It uses the HTML5 Vibration API and the Javascript programming language to create vibration patterns in order to increase the interaction between visually impaired people with their smart phones. Apart from vision, audio and haptics are used to maximize the Human – Computer Interaction between the Android phones and users with visual impairments. Three methods are proposed for the creation of tactile interfaces in smart phones, one is with the use of the HTML image map tag, and the other with the Mask R-CNN Artificial Intelligence algorithm. The Mean Opinion Score procedure is used in order to evaluate the proposed vibration patterns for Human - Computer Interaction Techniques.

Keywords: Tactile interfaces, Haptics, Vibration patterns, HTML5, Vibration API, Mask R-CNN

Suggested Citation

Kokkonis, George and Moysiadis, Vasileios and Kollatou, Theofano and Kontogiannis, Sotirios, Design Tactile Interfaces with Vibration Patterns in HTML5 for Smartphone Users with Visual Impairments (February 28, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3347047 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3347047

George Kokkonis

Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences

Kozani
Greece

Vasileios Moysiadis

Univeristy of Western Macedonia

2 Eleftherioy Venizeloy St
50100
Greece

Theofano Kollatou

Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences

Kozani
Greece

Sotirios Kontogiannis (Contact Author)

University of Ioannina ( email )

Campus Psathaki
Ioannina, Epirus 48100
Greece

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