Photo: Andreas Nilsson
The Inclusive Train Information Terminal is a project carried out in collaboration with the Swedish Rail Administration.
The brief was to provide ideas, construct prototypes, and lay down general principles for the design of train information terminals accessible for the widest target group possible.
Our primary objective throughout the project, from our pre-study to the finalized, fully functional prototype, has been to allow people with various kinds of disabilities access to the service of public transport, following the ideals of inclusive design. Throughout our user-centered design process, we have worked in close collaboration with a number of disability organizations and real users have been active in all phases of the projects. The resulting prototype has also been subject to thorough testing and evaluation in situ at Örebro train station.
We are very excited that no later than 2010, the results of this project will be found in all train stations throughout Sweden.
Photo: Andreas Nilsson
The AudioIndex system gives disabled library visitors the possibility to independently browse for books, get guidance, and access information for example on notice boards.
AudioIndex allows visually impaired users to browse for audio books by pointing directly with their index fingers on the spine of the audio book as it stands in the shelf. The system then recognizes which audio book it is and quickly provides the user with information about the author, the title, and a summary of the contents of that particular book in the form of synthesized speech. Users are also able to point at other objects in the library, such as bookshelf, to find out what kinds of books are to be found in that particular shelf.
AudioIndex is the result of an EU-funded project that focused on accessibility to libraries for all visitors, run by the public libraries in the Umeå region. The main target group was visually impaired visitors and the entire project was carried out in close collaboration with end users and disability organisations.
