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Barbara Leporini
Researcher at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Publications - 123
Citations - 1540
Barbara Leporini is an academic researcher from Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione. The author has contributed to research in topics: Usability & Screen reader. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1304 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Leporini include National Research Council & University of Pisa.
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Designing search engine user interfaces for the visually impaired
TL;DR: The most important differences between a visual layout and aural perception are discussed, in order to propose appropriate and specific guidelines for improving the design of search engine interfaces.
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Integrating Wearable Haptics and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired in Indoor Navigation: A User-Centered Approach
TL;DR: Experiments with blindfolded subjects and visually impaired participants show that the proposed travel aid system could be an effective support during indoor navigation, and a viable tool for training blind people to the usage of travel aids.
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Making visual maps accessible to the blind
TL;DR: New ways to interact with a mobile device and possible solutions for making a map truly effective are investigated and an example of an interaction is presented to better explain the issues and needs of blind users accessing visual maps.
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Criteria for usability of accessible web sites
Barbara Leporini,Fabio Paternò +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a set of usability criteria for accessible web sites in order to improve the navigability for special users, i.e. the vision impaired.
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Designing a text entry multimodal keypad for blind users of touchscreen mobile phones
TL;DR: Multimodal Text Input Touchscreen Keypad (MTITK), an audio-tactile text entry prototype based on multitap, which relies on a telephone keypad layout organized into five key groups with distinct audio-Tactile feedback, is developed and tested.