BrightLights: Gamifying Data Capture for Situational Visual Impairments

Kerr Macpherson, Garreth Tigwell, Rachel Menzies, David Flatla

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Abstract

With the growing popularity of mobile devices, Situational Visual Impairments (SVIs) can cause accessibility challenges. When addressing SVIs, interface and content designers are lacking guidelines based on empirically-determined SVI contrast sensitivities. To address this, we developed BrightLights - a game that collects screen-content-contrast data in-the-wild that will enable new SVI-pertinent contrast ratio recommendations. In our evaluation with 15 participants, we found significantly worse performance with low screen brightness versus medium or high screen brightness, showing that Bright- Lights is sensitive to at least one factor that contributes to SVI (screen brightness). Once validated for in-the-wild deployment, BrightLights data will finally help designers address SVIs through their designs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages355-357
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-5650-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2018
Event20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accesssibility - Galway, Ireland
Duration: 22 Oct 201824 Oct 2018
https://assets18.sigaccess.org/

Conference

Conference20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accesssibility
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityGalway
Period22/10/1824/10/18
Internet address

Keywords

  • Accessibility
  • Games
  • Mobile devices
  • Situational impairment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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