Though accessible gaming is a well-established phenomenon, few mainstream applications of it exist. We present some of the work of the AGRIP project – an effort to develop techniques to render modern first-person shooter games accessible to the blind and vision-impaired. We discuss some of the low-level accessibility infrastructure employed in the game AudioQuake and compare it to other contemp...

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Cloud computing fulfills the long-held dream of computing as a utility and fundamentally altering the expectations for how and when computing, storage and networking resources should be allocate, managed, consume and allow user to utilize services globally. Due to the powerful computing and storage, high availability and security, easy accessibility and adaptability, reliable scalability and in...

The Future Operations Centre Analysis Laboratory (FOCAL) at Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is aimed at exploring new paradigms for situation awareness (SA) and command and control (C2) in military command centres, making use of new technologies developed for virtual reality and real-time 3D animation. Recent work includes the conceptual design and prototype devel...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to address problems associated with the accessibility of academic library databases. Design/methodology/approach – This study evaluates 32 databases and measures their accessibility to users of adaptive technology. Findings – Based on the results of this study, 72 percent of the evaluated databases were rated as marginally accessible or inaccessible, refle...

A model for the basis of feeling of knowing (FOK) is proposed, which combines 2 apparently competing accounts, cue familiarity (L. M. Reder, 1987), and accessibility (A. Koriat, 1993). Both cue familiarity and accessibility are assumed to contribute asynchronously to FOK, but whereas the effects of familiarity occur early, those of accessibility occur later and only when cue familiarity is suff...