Collaborative PhD student Nikolaos Kaklanis wins first award in the Web Accessibility Challenge
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Congratulations to Nikolaos Kaklanis, a collaborative PhD student between the Department of Computing at Surrey and the Institute of Telematics and Informatics (ITI) in Thessaloniki, Greece, who won the ‘Judges Award’ for his paper on the ‘3D HapticWebBrowser’ at this year’s Web Accessibility Challenge, sponsored by Microsoft. The paper was presented at the 7th International Cross-disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010), which was co-located with the 19th International Conference on the World Wide Web (www2010).
N. Kaklanis, K. Votis, K. Moustakas, and D. Tzovaras. 3D HapticWebBrowser: Towards Universal Web Navigation for the Visually Impaired. In Proc. 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010), 26-27 April 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA.
The ‘3D HapticWebBrowser’ is an application that enables haptic navigation through the web for visually impaired users. It uses an innovative interaction technique in which each HTML component is being transformed into a 3D virtual object with haptic and audio feedback. The application also supports the haptic exploration of 2D maps found on the web.
This work is supported by the EU FP7 project AEGIS, contract no. 224348.
Nikolaos Kaklanis is supervised at Surrey by Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Professor Paul Krause and Dr Dimitris Tzovaras, Professor Maria Petrou at the Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki.