Verbally assisted haptic graph comprehension The role of taking initiative in a joint activity

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2014-08-31

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Deniz, Ozan
Mehmetcan, Fal
Acartürk, Cengiz

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Statistical graphs are tools for multimodal communication in daily life settings. For visually impaired people, haptic interfaces provide perceptual access to the information provided by the graph. Haptic comprehension is facilitated by audio and verbal assistance. We investigate the circumstances under which verbal assistance facilitates haptic comprehension of graphs. For this, we focus on cases where unaided haptic graph comprehension has limitations, such as when describing a global (rather than a local) maximum. In an experiment that employed a joint activity setting, we observed two major aspects of verbal assistance for haptic graph comprehension, as indicated by post-exploration sketch production of the participants: First, the results revealed significant impact of the explorer as a dialogue initiator during the course of haptic exploration. Second, verbal assistance led to more successful graph comprehension when it was enriched by modifiers.

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Haptic line graph comprehension, Sketching, Verbal assistance, Turn-taking

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https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/multimodalcommunication2014/Main/AcceptedPapers
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73698
https://acarturk.net/wp-content/uploads/Alacam_Habel_Acarturk_2014a.pdf

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2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication

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Graduate School of Informatics, Conference / Seminar

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O. Deniz, F. Mehmetcan, and C. Acartürk, “Verbally assisted haptic graph comprehension The role of taking initiative in a joint activity,” presented at the 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication, Estonya, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/multimodalcommunication2014/Main/AcceptedPapers.