Multi-sensory browser and editor model
James W. Ryder, Kanad Ghose · 1999
This paper describes early results from an ongoing research project.Its purpose is to study the feasibility of full incorporation of bidirectional sound into a standard computer user5 application interface environment.The authors attempt to create highly independent, navigable, active objects that provide functions, via sound l/O, comparable to those found with a conventional visual-tactile interthce.Users should be able to seamlessly mix and match commands without regard to the I/O mechanism chosen.A prototype named the Voice Enabled Reading Assistant (VERA), which was written using this Aural-Oral User Interface (A-OUI) is described.VERA is used both to test the user interface and as a tool for generating ideas for improvements that will be incorporated in subsequent &eriments.