RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References

Margrit Betke, Smita Deshpande

2009

Abstract

In this paper, we present RefLink, an interface that allows users to analyze the content of web page by dynamically linking to an online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia. Upon opening a webpage, RefLink instantly provides a list of terms extracted from the webpage and annotates each term by the number of its occurrences in the page. RefLink uses the text-to-speech interface to read out the list of terms. The user can select a term of interest and follow its link to the encyclopedia. RefLink thus helps the users to perform an informed and efficient contextual analysis. Initial user testing suggests that RefLink is a valuable web browsing tool, in particular for people with motion impairments, because it greatly simplifies the process of obtaining reference material and performing contextual analysis.

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Betke M. and Deshpande S. (2009). RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References . In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-89-0, pages 28-37. DOI: 10.5220/0002180700280037


in Bibtex Style

@conference{pris09,
author={Margrit Betke and Smita Deshpande},
title={RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={28-37},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002180700280037},
isbn={978-989-8111-89-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - Volume 1: PRIS, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References
SN - 978-989-8111-89-0
AU - Betke M.
AU - Deshpande S.
PY - 2009
SP - 28
EP - 37
DO - 10.5220/0002180700280037