Tsuyoshi Ebina

Fast web by using updated content extraction and a bookmark facility

This paper describes improved methods of web access for the visually impaired. Some A few web access systems for the visually impaired have already been developed and are widely used. The improvements described in this paper are in two areas. The first is a fastest mean of jumping from the current sentence position into desired sentence position within web pages. The second is a facility for searching for sentences that have been updated since a previous viewing. User testing was carried out, and the two facilities were found to reduce not only the web page access time but also the user?s mental workload.

Accessibility guidelines for victim information registration and retrieval systems

This paper describes accessibility guidelines for victim information registration and retrieval systems. First we describe an IAA (I Am Alive) system, which is one of victim information registration and retrieval systems. Next, we defined functional requirements for accessibility guidelines, and then compared them with other related accessibility guidelines. Accessibility of the IAA systems user interfaces is discussed based on proposed functional requirements. As a result, IAA systems user interfaces satisfy proposed guidelines though some improvements are required.

Fax registration of information about disaster victims

We are developing a survival-information registration system called IAA system. The IAA system allows disaster victims to register their survival information (kind of injuries, damage to property, etc.) through the Internet. However, elderly people were hard to register survival information because they were poor at using keyboard. We developed interactive fax user interface, which allows a user to check and correct the handwritten information using paper user interface. Experimental result showed that elderly people could register their survival information without help.