Alasdair worked on the following publications. Where copies of the publication are provided, they are provided in compliance with the copyright requirements of the publisher. Do alert me to any problems.
Re-presenting visual content for blind people,PhD Thesis, University of Manchester 2007.
Personalising web page presentation for older people,Interacting with Computers (18) 2006, pp457-477.
Presenting UML Software Engineering Diagrams to Blind People, Proceedings of 9th International Conference, ICCHP 2004 ISBN 3-540-22334-7 (Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler and Dominique Burger - Editors) Paris, France, July 2004. pp522-529 PDF version
Automated Interpretation and Accessible Presentation of Technical Diagrams for Blind People,The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 10, No. 2, 2004, pp141-163.
A Talking Word Processor and Web Browser, Proceedings of 9th International Conference, ICCHP 2004 ISBN 3-540-22334-7 (Klaus Miesenberger, Joachim Klaus, Wolfgang Zagler and Dominique Burger - Editors) Paris, France, July 2004. pp1003-1008.
TeDUB: Automatic Interpretation and Presentation of Technical Diagrams for Blind People, Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment - CVHI'2004, EURO-ASSIST-VHI-2: Accessibility, Mobility and Social Integration, 2004, Granada, Spain.
Screen Magnifiers: Evolution and Evaluation, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 23 Number 5, September/October 2003, pp54-62. PDF version
Providing blind people with access to technical diagrams, paper presented at AAATE 2003 in Dublin, 31 August - 2 September 2003.
Evaluating the Usability of Joystick Control of a Screen Magnifier with Visually Impaired Users. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.) Universal Access in HCI (Proceedings of HCII'03), Crete, Greece 24-27 June 2003, pp201-205.
Design and User Evaluation of a Joystick-Operated Full-Screen Magnifier, Proceedings of CHI'03, ACM Press, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 5-10 April 2003.
A User evaluation of a Joystick-Operated Full-Screen Magnifier, paper presented at 7th ERCIM International Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Paris, France, 24-25 October 2002.
The Design and Evaluation of a Joystick-Operated Screen Magnifier, poster at the British HCI Group 2002 Conference, London, UK, 2-6 September 2002.
Blind people and the World Wide Web,poster at CWUAAT 04: 2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, Designing a More Inclusive World, Cambridge, UK, 22-24 March 2004.2004, Cambridge, UK.
A platform-independent Braille translator, paper presented at the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment - CVHI'2002, EURO-ASSIST-VHI-2: Accessibility, Mobility and Social Integration, 6-9 August 2002, Granada, Spain. PDF version
TeDUB: A System for Presenting and Exploring Technical Drawings for Blind People, paper presented at ICCHP 2002, Linz, Austria, 15-20 July 2002, pp 537-539