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RE: Accessibility guidelines for information kiosks

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From: Oliver Burmeister
Date: Mar 7, 2002 7:50PM

Dear All.

Wow! I had a wealth of information sent to me directly and through this
group - thanks heaps!

Oliver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Burmeister [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2002 17:36
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Accessibility guidelines for information kiosks
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm new to this list and after being a voyeur for a couple of
> weeks, thought its about time I join the conversation.
>
> I have 2 requests:
>
> 1. I teach HCI at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I would
> be interested in hearing from anyone who has incorporated
> accessibility issues into their teaching of HCI, to get ideas for
> how I could do likewise.
>
> 2. This semester my Maters students do a major usability project
> prototyping a new interface for a touch-screen information kiosk
> that has in recent times (since Oct last year) become popular
> with the public in Melbourne. I realise this list is meant to be
> reserved for discussing web accessibility issues, but I'm hoping
> this request with still within the realms of acceptability.
> Clearly there are guidelines for accessibility for web design,
> but what about the design of other products, such as information
> kiosks? This is not be a major component of the Masters project,
> but I would like to raise awareness of accessibility issues
> amongst my 49 students.
>
> I look forward to your replies. Regards,
>
> Oliver
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Oliver Burmeister
> Lecturer
> Swinburne Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory
> School of Information Technology
> Swinburne University of Technology
> PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
> Australia
> (T) +61 3 9214 8304
> (F) +61 3 9214 5501
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> URL: http://www.it.swin.edu.au/schil/biographies/oliverburmeister.html
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