Research

Research

Papers, book chapters and conference posters I wrote or on which I worked.

Roberto Manduchi, Sri Kurniawan (Editors)
Screenreaders, Magnifiers, and Other Ways of Using Computers, in Assistive Technology for Blindness and Low Vision. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2012. "
Alasdair King
Re-presenting visual content for blind people, PhD Thesis, University of Manchester 2007.
Sri Kurniawan, Alasdair King, Gareth Evans & Paul Blenkhorn
Personalising web page presentation for older people, Interacting with Computers (18) 2006, pp457-477.
Alasdair King, Paul Blenkhorn, David Crombie, Sijo Dijkstra, Gareth Evans, John Wood
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
Mirko Hortsman, M. Lorenz, A. Watkowski, Alasdair King, Gareth Evans, Cornelius Hagen, Christof Schlieder, Neil King, Anne-Marie Burn, Helen Petrie & Sijo Dijkstra
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. PDF version
Gareth Evans, Miltos Kritikos, Alasdair King, Paul Blenkhorn
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.
Mirko Horstmann, Cornelius Hagen, Alasdair King, Sijo Dijkstra, David Crombie, Gareth Evans, George T. Ioannidis, Paul Blenkhorn, O. Herzog, Christoph Schlieder
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.
Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans, Alasdair King, Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, Alistair Sutcliffe
Screen Magnifiers: Evolution and Evaluation, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 23 Number 5, September/October 2003, pp54-62. PDF version
Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans, Alasdair King, David Crombie, Sijo Dijkstra, Bláithín Gallagher, Mark Magennis, John Wood, Cornelius Hagen, Christoph Schlieder, Mirko Horstmann, George Ioannidis, Anne-Marie O'Neill, Helen Petrie
Providing blind people with access to technical diagrams, paper presented at AAATE 2003 in Dublin, 31 August - 2 September 2003. PDF version
David Gareth Evans, Sri H. Kurniawan, Alasdair King, Paul L. Blenkhorn
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.
Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, Alasdair King, David Gareth Evans, Paul Blenkhorn
Design and User Evaluation of a Joystick-Operated Full-Screen Magnifier, Proceedings of CHI'03, ACM Press, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 5-10 April 2003. PDF version
Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, Alasdair King, David Gareth Evans, Paul Blenkhorn
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.
Alasdair King, Sri Hastuti Kurniawan, David Gareth Evans and Paul Blenkhorn.
The Design and Evaluation of a Joystick-Operated Screen Magnifier, poster at the British HCI Group 2002 Conference, London, UK, 2-6 September 2002.
Alasdair King, Gareth Evans and Paul Blenkhorn.
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.
Alasdair King, Paul Blenkhorn and Gareth Evans.
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
Helen Petrie, Christoph Schlieder, Paul Blenkhorn, David Gareth Evans, Alasdair King, Anne-Marie O'Neill, George T. Ioannidis, Blaithin Gallagher, David Crombie, Rolf Mager, Maurizio Alafaci
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