Pervasive Web News Recommendation for Visually Impaired People

Author

Chen, Wei ; Zhang, Li-jun ; Wang, Can ; Chen, Chun ; Bu, Jia-jun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

122

Abstract

It is very difficult for blind and visually-impaired people getting information from the outside world. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Web news recommendation system named EagleRadio, designed for blind man and supports pervasive access using terminals. EagleRadio offers natural and user-friendly interface. News stories from different topics are read via a speech synthesizer to users and they can use commands to navigate inside the news space. Based on the analyzing of userpsilas listening history, adaptive topic navigation and news recommendation methods help users reaching relevant topics quickly and push the most relevant news to them. Finally, we evaluate the proposed algorithms and quantify the effect of EagleRadio from a userpsilas perspective.

Keywords

Internet; handicapped aids; information filtering; information filters; speech synthesis; ubiquitous computing; user interfaces; vision defects; EagleRadio; adaptive topic navigation; blind people; natural user-friendly interface; pervasive adaptive Web news recommendation system; speech synthesizer; visually impaired people; Computer science; Educational institutions; Feedback; History; Intelligent agent; Navigation; Prototypes; Recommender systems; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; news recommendation; topic navigation; visually-impaired people;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3496-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIIAT.2008.43

Filename

4740741