%0 Conference Paper
%A Sulaiman, S.
%A Saei, S.N.S.M.
%A Mean, F.O.
%A Hasbullah, H.
%D 2010
%F scholars:1076
%K Assistive technology; Blind users; Current practices; Design requirements; Domain experts; Ideal systems; Screen readers, Design; Information technology; Intelligent systems, Computer applications
%P 1164-1167
%R 10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561491
%T Understanding domain expert's perspectives and expectations in assistive technology
%U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/1076/
%V 3
%X Designing computer applications for blind users is a challenging task. The design requirements should encompass those feedback obtained from the target users, the domain experts as well as the designers' intuition of the system. Current practice has placed little emphasis on the involvement of domain experts when capturing the design requirements. This paper addresses this problem by highlighting the importance of such involvement. An interview was conducted to elicit a domain expert's view on how blind users used computer, the technology they used and their general requirements on an ideal system. The findings include blind users require an intelligent system that could read "the right thing" at "the right time", provide a description of images on a document, and have shortcut keys for the system. © 2010 IEEE.
%Z cited By 4; Conference of 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology, ITSim'10 ; Conference Date: 15 June 2010 Through 17 June 2010; Conference Code:81915