Today's graphical user interfaces simulate a perfect world. Windows have always the same look and buttons have identical shapes and colors and are aligned to regular grids. The only distinction between graphical elements is their label. The current visual design of user interfaces ignores the capabilities of modern displays for an eeective visual coding and the resulting uniformness makes it ve...

Audio feedback remains little used in most graphical user interfaces despite its potential to greatly enhance interaction. Not only does sonic enhancement of interfaces permit more natural human-computer communication but it also allows users to employ an appropriate sense to solve a problem rather than having to rely solely on vision. Research shows that designers do not typically know how to ...

The majority of work in auditory user interfaces has focused on adding auditory cues to a visual interface. This paper presents work in designing interactive auditory-only interfaces where the design of the interface is driven by a challenging task -providing access to graphical user interfaces for people who are blind. This task requires that the auditory-only interface must be able to provide...

Graphical user interfaces play a key role in human-computer interaction, as they link the system with its end-users, allowing information exchange and improving communication. Nowadays, users increasingly demand applications with adaptive interfaces that dynamically evolve in response to their specific needs. Thus, providing graphical user interfaces with runtime adaptation capabilities is beco...

Graphical user interfaces greatly enhanced usability of computer systems over older text-based systems. Unfortunately, blind users gain very little from the benefits of these graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Past research has looked at communicating graphical information to blind computer users through other channels such as haptic or auditory senses. In this report, I provide an overview of r...

Various approaches to providing blind users with access to graphical user interfaces have been researched extensively in the past 15 years, and yet accessibility is still facing many obstacles. Graphical environments such as X Windows offer a high degree of freedom to both the developer and the user, complicating the accessibility problem even more. Existing technology is largely based on eithe...

This paper presents a dynamic reverse engineering approach and a tool, ReGUI, developed to reduce the effort of obtaining models of the structure and behaviour of a software applications Graphical User Interface (GUI). It describes, in more detail, the architecture of the REGUI tool, the process followed to extract information and the different types of models produced to represent such informa...