gReader: A Universally Designed, Device-Independent Email Client

Author

Grace, Lindsay D.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL

fYear

2009

fDate

1-7 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

329

Lastpage

335

Abstract

This paper describes the design, development and user study of a text-to-speech system for reviewing email messages. The system retrieves messages, converts them to audio files, and facilitates transferring the messages to a portable listening device. This study reviews the efficacy of such a system and compares the users´ ability to comprehend spoken audio messages verses written messages. According to the study the system was successful, but the user interest in the design was only moderate.

Keywords

electronic mail; electronic messaging; speech synthesis; task analysis; audio file; email messaging; gReader program; message transfer; portable listening device; spoken audio message comprehension; text-to-speech system; universal device-independent email client design; user task analysis; Application software; Costs; Electronic mail; Hardware; Legged locomotion; Operating systems; Portable computers; Portable media players; Smart phones; Speech synthesis; Email; Portable Communication Device; Portable Entertainment Device; Text-to-Speech; Universal Accessibility; Universal Design; User Study;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2009. ACHI '09. Second International Conferences on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3351-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3529-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACHI.2009.46

Filename

4782535