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Accessibility innovation through gestural and sign-language interfaces
Prof Jonathan Hassell (@jonhassell)
Director, Hassell Inclusion
Visiting Professor, London Metropolitan University
CSUN, San Diego, USA 19th March 2013
1Accessibility
and innovation
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
Without these innovators
(and more)
the lives of disabled people
would be much impoverished
Jim Thatcher for the first
Screen Reader
Thanks to iheni.com
Ray Kurzweil for the first commercial
speech recognition (& much more)
Bill Kastner, WGBH and the BBC
for the first closed captioning
Gregg Vanderheiden for starting the
accessibility guidelines ball rolling
Tim Berners Lee for “the power of the web is
in its universality…”
(inspired by Mike Paciello)
The legislators behind
Section 508 (USA) and
Disability Discrimination Act Pt III (UK)
Rob Sinclair for making ATs
easier to create with MSAA and UIA
Maguire & SOCOG for giving the world
its first web accessibility test case
The WebAIM crew for getting the word out
and stoking the discussion
Julie Howell and the PAS/78 authors
for making accessibility more strategic
Shawn Lawton Henry for building a bridge
between accessibility & usability
Mick Curran & James Teh for making
screenreaders affordable with NVDA
Steve Jobs for
making
accessibility
built in as
standard in
Apple products
Jennison Asuncion for GAAD
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
And all those who
funded their work,
used what they created,
shared the news…
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
And …
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
As mobile technology enables
more people to be innovators
Why shouldn’t
your face be here…?
None of those guys were available… so you’ve got me: Jonathan
Hassell
• >13 years experience in accessibility and inclusion
• lead author of BS 8878 British Accessibility Standards
• former Head of Usability & Accessibility, BBC
• led work to embed accessibility across
BBC web, mobile and IPTV production teams
• won BIMA 2008 & Access-IT@Home awards
for the accessibility features of BBC iPlayer
• Product Manager of innovative products:
• won IMS Global Learning Impact Award 2010
for MyDisplay
• won ‘Best Usability & Accessibility’ BIMA 2006
for My Web, My Way
• 3 x Bafta-nominated for breakthrough rich-media
eLearning projects for disabled children
2What is innovation?
“Fresh thinking that creates value”
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9928154
“The process of translating an idea or
invention into a good or service that
creates value or for which customers
will pay.”
www.businessdictionary.com/definition/innovation.html#ixzz2iko2wNHH
Great innovations
come from…
User needs
Technology
possibilities
Sustainable
market/fundi
ng
Great
innovations
3“Where do you get your
ideas from…?”
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
How to source ideas…
From following
market trends
(e.g. everything
goes social…)
From listening
to users’
unmet needs
and finding
ways to meet
them
From
encouraging
your team to
come up with
ideas
From following
technology
possibilities
(Freeview =>
Youview)
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
How inclusion helps ideation…
From following
market trends
(e.g. everything
goes social…)
From listening
to users’
unmet needs
and finding
ways to meet
them
From
encouraging
your team to
come up with
ideas
From following
technology
possibilities
(Freeview =>
Youview)
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
The problem of fixation…
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
How people try to free themselves from it…
‘Draw an alien’ to free yourself from conventional thinking
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
Why not find a challenge closer to home?
Think about how a disabled person would use your product…
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
The beauty of constraints…
© 2011 Centre for Business Innovation Ltd
- 34 -
Centre for Business Innovation
“Connected Communities, helping you Do more with Less” Engineering Design Centre
The potential of inclusive design: OXO Good Grips
• Well-known pioneer of Inclusive Design in the
USA
• Sam Farber’s wife, a keen cook, suffered from
arthritis
“Why do ordinary kitchen tools hurt your
hands?”
• First 15 products launched in 1990
• Sales growth over 35% per year from 1991 to
2002
• The line has now grown to over 500 products
• Over 100 design awards received
Look where asking the right question can get you…
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
How focusing on users takes you beyond inclusion…
From following
market trends
(e.g. everything
goes social…)
From listening
to users’
unmet needs
and finding
ways to meet
them
From
encouraging
your team to
come up with
ideas
From following
technology
possibilities
(Freeview =>
Youview)
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
Audience research – focus groups, ethnographic studies etc.
Keep listening through iterative user-testing
Do initial
audience
research
User test to
get better
audience
research
Develop
minimal,
flexible
next version
If more
improvement
justified,
cycle…
Use a user-centred development process to help you
– BS 8878
How mainstream products have arisen from
innovative ‘beyond inclusion’ solutions
jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
4Innovation through
Natural User Interfaces
Example 1: uKinect Sign Recognition
Speech recognition is cool
Speech translation is cooler
The Funding Vision
• Learners with disabilities may lack independence due to an
inability to communicate by speech or due to lack of motor
control
• If signs and gestures can be easily learned, recognized and
converted to digital data, a whole new world of opportunity
opens up.
TechDis, BIS, TSB SBRI ‘Making Waves’ competition
The ideal
The “breakthrough” inspiration
• http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680081/a-
device-to-translate-sign-language-into-
speech and http://www.uh.edu/news-
events/Fulbright/2012/may/0529MyVoice.ph
p
It takes time… – cf. Siri
Speech recognition was able to
understand digits in the 1950s…
Siri’s intelligence has been
worked on for at least 10 years
The problem
We had
6 months…
User-focused approach
User needs
Technology
possibilities
Sustainable
funding/ma
rket
Great
innovations
Our breakthrough
technology enabler 
The way ahead
The way ahead
Looked for
people who
could benefit
from each of
our (baby)
steps…
Why choose Makaton-users
as our target audience?
British Sign Language Makaton
Thousands of signs (> 21,000) Hundreds of signs
Individual sign vocab > 5,000 Individual sign vocab < 200
Long sequences of signs 1 or 2 sign sequences
Sign quality fairly uniform Sign quality very variable, plus
personal (idiosyncratic) signs
Many competing teams
innovating in this field
Very few competing teams
innovating in this field
User-Centred Approach
Engagement
through a
character and
humour…
Inspiration:
Talking Tom
Proof of concept solution
Watch the video at: http://vimeo.com/32022176
Phase Two
Users and contexts of use
Signing
e-Learning game
Users with comms difficulties
through LDs, Autism, stroke
Education Employment
Independent
Living
Supporters of these users:
colleagues, teachers, carers, parents
Product launching May-14
Accessibility innovation through gestural and sign-language interfaces
Hints of a new opportunity
“Boris was so engaging
that blind students were
also asking to use it to
learn to sign…”
Example 2: The Nepalese Necklace
A Movement Game for Blind and VI Children
The Nepalese Necklace Original concept
• The idea:
• using audio-games & Microsoft Kinect’s
gesture recognition to encourage blind and
partially-sighted children to engage more
readily with their mobility training
• The project:
• an inexpensive, 3 month Proof of Concept
to investigate the idea’s potential in a
concrete, testable way
The Nepalese Necklace UCD Approach
• Initial user-research
• found experts in the learning, and
representatives of the learners
• created a way of giving both an initial
idea of what we were talking about, to
get their attention and buy-in
• asked questions to “get into their world”
• then created what they needed/wanted
• Iterative user-testing
• we did this every couple of weeks
• there’s no substitute for it
The Nepalese Necklace Validation
• Did final research to prove value
• in all contexts of use
(in homes as well as as schools)
• over longer periods of testing, without
expert presence (over at least a week,
without you propping the PoC up)
• observed and interviewed users &
experts to understand how they
behave and feel about the PoC
• Got the results on video
• nothing else quite proves your case
Partner of the Year
Gamelab UK
If you
remember
one thing…
Listening to your diverse audiences needs…
identifies challenges…
but innovation often follows a challenge
So why shouldn’t
this be you?
• the full guide on how to transform your organisation
to achieve the consistent creation of web sites and
apps that are usable and accessible to all your
customers, at the most efficient cost
• with practical case-studies from leading
accessibility experts worldwide, including:
• Jennison Asuncion (Canada),
• Debra Ruh & Jeff Kline (USA),
• Andrew Arch (Australia)
• David Banes (Qatar)
• Axel Leblois (UN)
for information on the book,
free access to video case-
studies, and a chance of winning
the book for free
Click here for
chance to
win book
There’s more on accessibility
innovation in my book
Training &
support for
BS8878
Standards
Innovation
www.hassellinclusion.com
Strategy &
research
More Hassell Inclusion at CSUN-14:
Web Accessibility Myths for the mobile generation
• Do disabled people really
use ATs?
• Is the most important
accessibility issue for
images alt-text?
• Does inclusive design really
benefit everyone?
• Are the most important
people in accessibility
developers?
• challenging some of the
accepted views we hold that
may no longer be true…
More Hassell Inclusion at CSUN-14:
7 Signs of maturing in accessibility and inclusion
• The accessibility industry is
aging and growing…
• But is it maturing…?
• how do you measure
maturity in accessibility
- in organisations,
and as an industry?
• from Tim Cook’s latest
shareholder comments
to the IAAP – here are 7
signs that we’re maturing
as we grow…
Get in touch…
e: jonathan@hassellinclusion.com
t: @jonhassell
w: www.hassellinclusion.com

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Accessibility innovation through gestural and sign-language interfaces

  • 1. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk Accessibility innovation through gestural and sign-language interfaces Prof Jonathan Hassell (@jonhassell) Director, Hassell Inclusion Visiting Professor, London Metropolitan University CSUN, San Diego, USA 19th March 2013
  • 3. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk Without these innovators (and more) the lives of disabled people would be much impoverished
  • 4. Jim Thatcher for the first Screen Reader Thanks to iheni.com
  • 5. Ray Kurzweil for the first commercial speech recognition (& much more)
  • 6. Bill Kastner, WGBH and the BBC for the first closed captioning
  • 7. Gregg Vanderheiden for starting the accessibility guidelines ball rolling
  • 8. Tim Berners Lee for “the power of the web is in its universality…” (inspired by Mike Paciello)
  • 9. The legislators behind Section 508 (USA) and Disability Discrimination Act Pt III (UK)
  • 10. Rob Sinclair for making ATs easier to create with MSAA and UIA
  • 11. Maguire & SOCOG for giving the world its first web accessibility test case
  • 12. The WebAIM crew for getting the word out and stoking the discussion
  • 13. Julie Howell and the PAS/78 authors for making accessibility more strategic
  • 14. Shawn Lawton Henry for building a bridge between accessibility & usability
  • 15. Mick Curran & James Teh for making screenreaders affordable with NVDA
  • 16. Steve Jobs for making accessibility built in as standard in Apple products
  • 18. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk And all those who funded their work, used what they created, shared the news…
  • 20. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk As mobile technology enables more people to be innovators
  • 22. None of those guys were available… so you’ve got me: Jonathan Hassell • >13 years experience in accessibility and inclusion • lead author of BS 8878 British Accessibility Standards • former Head of Usability & Accessibility, BBC • led work to embed accessibility across BBC web, mobile and IPTV production teams • won BIMA 2008 & Access-IT@Home awards for the accessibility features of BBC iPlayer • Product Manager of innovative products: • won IMS Global Learning Impact Award 2010 for MyDisplay • won ‘Best Usability & Accessibility’ BIMA 2006 for My Web, My Way • 3 x Bafta-nominated for breakthrough rich-media eLearning projects for disabled children
  • 24. “Fresh thinking that creates value” http://www.economist.com/specialreports/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9928154
  • 25. “The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay.” www.businessdictionary.com/definition/innovation.html#ixzz2iko2wNHH
  • 26. Great innovations come from… User needs Technology possibilities Sustainable market/fundi ng Great innovations
  • 27. 3“Where do you get your ideas from…?”
  • 28. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk How to source ideas… From following market trends (e.g. everything goes social…) From listening to users’ unmet needs and finding ways to meet them From encouraging your team to come up with ideas From following technology possibilities (Freeview => Youview)
  • 29. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk How inclusion helps ideation… From following market trends (e.g. everything goes social…) From listening to users’ unmet needs and finding ways to meet them From encouraging your team to come up with ideas From following technology possibilities (Freeview => Youview)
  • 31. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk How people try to free themselves from it… ‘Draw an alien’ to free yourself from conventional thinking
  • 32. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk Why not find a challenge closer to home? Think about how a disabled person would use your product…
  • 34. © 2011 Centre for Business Innovation Ltd - 34 - Centre for Business Innovation “Connected Communities, helping you Do more with Less” Engineering Design Centre The potential of inclusive design: OXO Good Grips • Well-known pioneer of Inclusive Design in the USA • Sam Farber’s wife, a keen cook, suffered from arthritis “Why do ordinary kitchen tools hurt your hands?” • First 15 products launched in 1990 • Sales growth over 35% per year from 1991 to 2002 • The line has now grown to over 500 products • Over 100 design awards received Look where asking the right question can get you…
  • 35. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk How focusing on users takes you beyond inclusion… From following market trends (e.g. everything goes social…) From listening to users’ unmet needs and finding ways to meet them From encouraging your team to come up with ideas From following technology possibilities (Freeview => Youview)
  • 36. jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk Audience research – focus groups, ethnographic studies etc.
  • 37. Keep listening through iterative user-testing Do initial audience research User test to get better audience research Develop minimal, flexible next version If more improvement justified, cycle…
  • 38. Use a user-centred development process to help you – BS 8878
  • 39. How mainstream products have arisen from innovative ‘beyond inclusion’ solutions
  • 41. Example 1: uKinect Sign Recognition
  • 44. The Funding Vision • Learners with disabilities may lack independence due to an inability to communicate by speech or due to lack of motor control • If signs and gestures can be easily learned, recognized and converted to digital data, a whole new world of opportunity opens up. TechDis, BIS, TSB SBRI ‘Making Waves’ competition
  • 46. The “breakthrough” inspiration • http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680081/a- device-to-translate-sign-language-into- speech and http://www.uh.edu/news- events/Fulbright/2012/may/0529MyVoice.ph p
  • 47. It takes time… – cf. Siri Speech recognition was able to understand digits in the 1950s… Siri’s intelligence has been worked on for at least 10 years
  • 48. The problem We had 6 months…
  • 51. The way ahead Looked for people who could benefit from each of our (baby) steps…
  • 52. Why choose Makaton-users as our target audience? British Sign Language Makaton Thousands of signs (> 21,000) Hundreds of signs Individual sign vocab > 5,000 Individual sign vocab < 200 Long sequences of signs 1 or 2 sign sequences Sign quality fairly uniform Sign quality very variable, plus personal (idiosyncratic) signs Many competing teams innovating in this field Very few competing teams innovating in this field
  • 53. User-Centred Approach Engagement through a character and humour… Inspiration: Talking Tom
  • 54. Proof of concept solution Watch the video at: http://vimeo.com/32022176
  • 56. Users and contexts of use Signing e-Learning game Users with comms difficulties through LDs, Autism, stroke Education Employment Independent Living Supporters of these users: colleagues, teachers, carers, parents
  • 59. Hints of a new opportunity “Boris was so engaging that blind students were also asking to use it to learn to sign…”
  • 60. Example 2: The Nepalese Necklace A Movement Game for Blind and VI Children
  • 61. The Nepalese Necklace Original concept • The idea: • using audio-games & Microsoft Kinect’s gesture recognition to encourage blind and partially-sighted children to engage more readily with their mobility training • The project: • an inexpensive, 3 month Proof of Concept to investigate the idea’s potential in a concrete, testable way
  • 62. The Nepalese Necklace UCD Approach • Initial user-research • found experts in the learning, and representatives of the learners • created a way of giving both an initial idea of what we were talking about, to get their attention and buy-in • asked questions to “get into their world” • then created what they needed/wanted • Iterative user-testing • we did this every couple of weeks • there’s no substitute for it
  • 63. The Nepalese Necklace Validation • Did final research to prove value • in all contexts of use (in homes as well as as schools) • over longer periods of testing, without expert presence (over at least a week, without you propping the PoC up) • observed and interviewed users & experts to understand how they behave and feel about the PoC • Got the results on video • nothing else quite proves your case
  • 64. Partner of the Year Gamelab UK
  • 66. Listening to your diverse audiences needs… identifies challenges… but innovation often follows a challenge
  • 68. • the full guide on how to transform your organisation to achieve the consistent creation of web sites and apps that are usable and accessible to all your customers, at the most efficient cost • with practical case-studies from leading accessibility experts worldwide, including: • Jennison Asuncion (Canada), • Debra Ruh & Jeff Kline (USA), • Andrew Arch (Australia) • David Banes (Qatar) • Axel Leblois (UN) for information on the book, free access to video case- studies, and a chance of winning the book for free Click here for chance to win book There’s more on accessibility innovation in my book
  • 70. More Hassell Inclusion at CSUN-14: Web Accessibility Myths for the mobile generation • Do disabled people really use ATs? • Is the most important accessibility issue for images alt-text? • Does inclusive design really benefit everyone? • Are the most important people in accessibility developers? • challenging some of the accepted views we hold that may no longer be true…
  • 71. More Hassell Inclusion at CSUN-14: 7 Signs of maturing in accessibility and inclusion • The accessibility industry is aging and growing… • But is it maturing…? • how do you measure maturity in accessibility - in organisations, and as an industry? • from Tim Cook’s latest shareholder comments to the IAAP – here are 7 signs that we’re maturing as we grow…
  • 72. Get in touch… e: jonathan@hassellinclusion.com t: @jonhassell w: www.hassellinclusion.com

Editor's Notes

  1. Digital TV has brought many advances for disabled and elderly people in recent years… access services - subtitles, signing, and audio descriptionIt’s brought problems too…“what box do I need… and how expensive is it?”“how do I find the programmes with the access services I need?”especially if the electronic programme guide doesn’t include speech…
  2. Digital TV has brought many advances for disabled and elderly people in recent years… access services - subtitles, signing, and audio descriptionIt’s brought problems too…“what box do I need… and how expensive is it?”“how do I find the programmes with the access services I need?”especially if the electronic programme guide doesn’t include speech…
  3. Digital TV has brought many advances for disabled and elderly people in recent years… access services - subtitles, signing, and audio descriptionIt’s brought problems too…“what box do I need… and how expensive is it?”“how do I find the programmes with the access services I need?”especially if the electronic programme guide doesn’t include speech…
  4. And we found…
  5. Working with the students to work out what they’d like…
  6. Here’s a summary of what we were able to achieve in our Phase One.
  7. Here’s a summary of what we were able to achieve in our Phase One.
  8. 32 minutes to here
  9. 32 minutes to here