Research & Publications

Research areas:

Full publication list

Design and evaluation of technologies for disabled and older people

Current projects

Web accessibility

The relationship between user evaluation of accessibility and accessibility conformance testing of websites
Publications:

i2Web Project

eAccess+ Network

EU4ALL

Completed recent projects

The Disability Rights Commission's Formal Investigation into Website accessibility - My team, then at City University, conducted the research for this investigation, the most comprehensive of website accessibility. The final report can be downloaded from the DRC's website in a variety of languages and formats. Publications: BenToWeb - A European funded project on developing benchmarking tools and methods for the Web. Tenuta - An eTen funded support action to provide accessibility and usability advice to eTen Projects Access to graphical information for blind people TeDUB - A project which developed a new method for blind people to interact with diagrams, by extracting the diagrammatic information and allowing people to interact with the information via synthetic speech, non-speech sounds and force feedback information. Funded by the IST Programme of the European Union. Describing images on webpages for blind users - I have conducted a series of studies on the "ALT text" problem - the fact that all images on web pages should have a description for blind web users. Publications Petrie, H., Schlieder, C., Blenkhorn, P., Evans, G., King, A., O’Neill, A.-M., Ioannidis, G.T., Gallagher, B., Crombie, D., Mager, R., and Alafaci, M. (2002). TeDUB: a system for presenting and exploring technical drawings for blind people. . In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus and W. Zagler (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 239: Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Full publication list:

Petrie, H., Weber, G., and Fisher, W. (2005). Personalisation, interaction and navigation in rich multimedia documents for print-disabled users. IBM Systems Journal, 44(3).

Petrie, H., Fisher, W. Weimann, K. and Weber, G. (2004). Augmented icons for deaf computer users. Proceedings of CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press.

Salminen, A.-L., Petrie, H. and Ryan, S. (2004). Impact of computer augmented communication on the daily lives of speech-impaired children. Part I: Daily communication and activities. Technology and Disability, 16(3), 157 – 167.

Salminen, A.-L., Ryan, S. and Petrie, H. (2004). Impact of computer augmented communication on the daily lives of speech-impaired children. Part II: Services to support computer augmented communcation. Technology and Disability, 16(3), 169 – 177.

Hamilton, F., Petrie, H. and Carmichael, A. (2003). The VISTA Project: universal access to electronic programme guides for digital TV. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal access in HCI: inclusive design in the information society. (Volume 4 of the Proceedings of HCI International 2003). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Petrie, H., Fisher, W., Weber, G., Langer, I., Gladstone, K., Rundle, C. and Pyfers, L. (2002). Universal interfaces to multimedia documents. Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal User Interfaces (ICMI 02). Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.

Petrie, H., O'Neill, A-M. and Colwell, C. (2002). Computer access by visually impaired people. In A. Kent and J.G. Williams (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 28. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Petrie, H., Schlieder, C., Blenkhorn, P., Evans, G., King, A., O’Neill, A.-M., Ioannidis, G.T., Gallagher, B., Crombie, D., Mager, R., and Alafaci, M. (2002). TeDUB: a system for presenting and exploring technical drawings for blind people. . In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus and W. Zagler (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 239: Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Penn, P., Petrie, H., Colwell, C., Kornbrot, D., Furner, S. and Hardwick, A. (2001). The perception of virtual textures and objects. In R. Murray-Smith and S. Brewster (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of First Workshop on Haptic Human Computer Interaction. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Petrie, H. (2001). Acessibility and usability requirements for ICTs for disabled and elderly people: a functional classification approach. In J.G. Abascal and C. Nicolle (Eds.), Inclusive guidelines for human computer interaction. London: Taylor and Francis. 0-748409-48-3.

Petrie, H. (2000). 100 hours alone with the Internet. In H. Kubicek, H. J. Braczyk, D. Klumpp and A. Rossnagel (Eds.), Global @ home. Heidelberg: Hutlig Verlag.

Ramsay, A.I.G. and Petrie, H. (2000). The tactile depiction of visual conventions: the advantage of explicit cues. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 18(1), 7 - 15.