...Creating and Evaluating Accessible Audio-only Games First Author: Tatt Loong Hung Affiliation: CIRCUA, School of Engineering & Information Sciences, Middlesex University Address: The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK. e-mail address: t.hung@mdx.ac.uk ABSTRACT Second Author: Ray Adams (supervisor) Affiliation: CIRCUA, School of Engineering & Information Sciences, Middlesex University Address: The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK. e-mail address: adams@churchillians.net In summary, this work demonstrates the feasibility and acceptability of creating audio-only games plus new findings about the importance of the level of cognitive load, the nature of the learning curve, the different design methodologies and the different types of players for an understanding of the psychology of the player of the audio-only computer game. MOTIVATION FOR THIS RESEARCH Audio-only computer games are the primary focus of the present work. They are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Computer games now form one of the biggest categories of software application in the world. Yet few of them are accessible for those players for whom visual displays are not appropriate, due to circumstances or visual disabilities. Equally, audio-only games provide an environment in which to investigate the psychology of the users of such games. We have deployed both existing games and those designed in collaboration with potential users, noting greater satisfaction with the latter. The...
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...Power Shifts: The Digital Era and Publishing Power Shifts: The Digital Era and Publishing | University of South Carolina | University of South Carolina 2014 2014 Introduction The digital era has led to a slew of technological changes that are drastically changing the norms of the publishing industry which in turn impacts our literary culture. While attempting to avoid a techno-determinist argument this paper attempts to examine the manner in emerging technologies have shaped the publishing industry. The initial focus on the areas of the publishing industry that are most affected by the changes in technology and then examining how these changes ripple through the industry and eventually to methods used by publishers to adapt to the change. The initial focus is one consumer behavior and how it is affected by new technologies then there is a shift to how this shift effects the supply chain that was previously in use and the ways in which the publishing model has been changed. Traditional publisher are then examined to understand how the industry as whole can effectively manage the changes. Finally trends that are currently being implemented as well as the changing demographics and their demands are discussed in order to bring the conversation full circle. Consumers When looking at consumer behavior and how it has been shaped by the innovations of the last 20 years a psychology based perspective is important. Technology has not drastically changed consumer attitudes...
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...The Book Publishing Industry Assessment 1: Industry Opportunity Analysis Name: Joyce Yi Student no: n9102434 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The publishing industry is incredibly resilient and is undergoing some incredible changes. This report will analyse the industry with respect to the 4C’s of Entertainment Marketing and identify the key opportunities that are currently evident within the publishing industry and thus devise two potential ideas for future development and implementations. Research has found that indie publishers and authors are taking up a huge portion of the market and therefore more beneficial for these professionals to create digital content and distribute it independently. As publishers are not educated in IT and data Analytics, these skill sets will need to be outsourced or taught in order for self-publishers to maximise their revenue and consumer retention. Mobile applications are also proving to be the new way to read digital content by enhancing the consumer’s experience, thus adding value to the product. The growth of virtual spaces that allow people to network and collaborate on creative projects are also increasing and globalisation has shaken the industry and provide huge opportunities to bring distribution closer to the consumer and pursue a much larger audience. Therefore, this analysis indicates there could be future development for a platform at which authors, publishers, and developers can come together to collaborate and create book...
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...Strategic Plan, Part I: Conceptualizing a Business BUS475 Integrated Business Topics May 15, 2013 My business idea is about an online publishing network for new writers, with access to editing services, marketing services, design and branding services. A ‘do-it-yourself’ is the future of publishing. By starting small, working on an initial author as a trial basis, we can discover the intricacies within the markets, using constant research and upgrading the process as technology grows. A channel where writers can find the trustworthy resources they need in one place. Jones Publishing will provide the services by connecting writers with reputable professionals. With so many niches within the writing industry, Jones Publishing will focus on non-fiction writing for young adults and adults in the genres of mystery, thrillers, romance, and science fiction. Being an on-line publishing house, Jones Publishing will invest in the network infrastructure to channel information, a smart front page that will allow for easy use for the clients. Quick access for requested content. Professional outlines to ensure clients the professional nature of the site. Professional look, business minded for the author/artist that doesn’t think in a business sense. We’re a small firm of three with projected contracts in marketing services, editing services, accounting services, agent services etc. The author can focus on what they do best and leave the business side to us. We can connect agent...
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...Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Files ® A Guide for Document Authors © 2004 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, the Adobe PDF logo, FrameMaker, GoLive, InDesign, PageMaker, Photoshop, PostScript, and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows XP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Mention of third party products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor recommendation. iii Creating Accessible Adobe® PDF Files Contents Introduction Section One: Checking PDF Documents for Accessibility Checking the reflow order of a document Additional accessibility tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Section Two: Accessibility Basics Tagged PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Section Three: Accessible PDF documents from Native Applications Creating accessible PDF documents using Adobe InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Web Usability Analysis Project Philip Mambo Capella University Introduction Usability is how easy an object is to use. The object can be almost anything, including a machine, tool, process, book, software application or website. Anything that a person can interact with should be usable. In the case of websites and software applications, usability has been defined as the ease at which an average person can use the software or website to achieve specific goals. Usability is comprised of learnability, memorability, efficiency, satisfaction and errors. Learnability is how easy it is for a new user to accomplish tasks the first time they visit your website. Memorability is how easy it is for someone to come back to using your website after they haven’t used it for a period of time. Efficiency is how quickly users can complete tasks on your site after they are familiar with its use. Satisfaction is whether users enjoy the design of your site and errors refers to the number of errors users make when they use your site, the severity of the errors and how easy they are to recover from. CBRE, Inc http://www.cbre.com CBRE operates as a commercial real estate services and investment company website. The website is an informational and ecommerce website for visitors where they can find links to properties and can accessed the best deals. The main links are About Us, Services; Find a Property, Global...
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...and Zimmerman (2009) state that “strategy is a key determinant of the success or failure of the enterprise” (p. 242). The same experts tell us that an important first step in organizational strategic development is to understand the firm’s resources and capabilities, as they relate to the external (business) environment, in order to identify opportunities to create and capture value (pp. 270-271). This post examines whether the economic concepts of creating and capturing value can be applied to a non-profit organization, existing since May 2008. Although more recent figures are not cited, ProRepublica (2013) reported in 2012, this organization’s financial statement included 15.8 million dollars in revenue, 7.3 million dollars in expenses, a net income of 8.5 million dollars and that over 96% of its revenue was in the form of contributions. Noer (2012) reported that this organization routinely serves six million online users a month and grew from one individual in 2008 to a current staff of 80 diversely talented personnel; creating and developing online content that has been translated into more than 20 languages (para 7). The mission statement for this organization is “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere”. This non-profit has created a consistently expanding value that would be hard to capture as ‘profit’ but whose success and ‘value’ can be explained in practical economic reasoning. The organization is Khan Academy. I referred my son to Khan Academy...
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...supplier, a truck stop chain, and natural gas driller. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Navistar International shared the plan with the Pilot Flying J Travel Centers, which is the largest network of truck and travel shops. The company will provide the service locations where the trucks could be refueled. America’s Natural Gas Highway also includes Chesapeake, the gas drilling company that would provide fuel to Clean Energy. Navistar will sell the best in-class natural gas (LNG) truck fleets to the consumer that are in contract with the Clean Energy; providing the fuel. Pilot Flying J Travel Centers will provide the locations, and Chesapeake drills the natural gas providing the return on investment. America’s Natural Gas Highway would help by creating the opportunity for a cheaper, cleaner, and domestic alternative fuel choice that is economically sustainable and good for the environment. The idea of these corporations working together to create America’s Natural Gas Highway raises many questions...
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...identified as those that 1) displace an existing market, industry, or technology and produce something new and more efficient, 2) come from the bottom of the market and are not yet valued by the existing customer base, 3) generally appear financially unattractive to established companies since the potential revenue is small and difficult to project in the long term, and 4) make a product more affordable and accessible to a larger population. By 1996, the Internet swiftly displaced the brokerage industry by creating the electronic brokerage market, a new sector within the brokerage industry. It provided customers the ability to trade without a broker efficiently and cheaply, in turn creating a new market of investors which Schwab had not anticipated. Ultimately, the technology offered cost advantages that transformed the brokerage services, which were historically expensive and limited to a select market of highly educated investors, making it more affordable to a larger population....
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...system. Only Congress has the authority to develop an EMR system that is designated as universal and requires compliance from all healthcare providers. Without a unified system, each provider, whether they be a hospital, an HMO system, or a private practice, will have their own solution and the end result will be similar to the current problem: incompatibility of systems and the inability to share information. Although each patient's medical record should be managed by their local primary care physician, patient information needs to be portable and accessible to appropriate caregivers in emergency rooms and other tertiary care settings, while assuring privacy and security to patients. Creating a basic, universal EMR system that is accessible to any institution, regardless of their current technological infrastructure, is another important consideration. The development of a national EMR system that is accessible to patients and physicians, yet secure in protecting personal...
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...Explain why 1. In 2011, in addition to enhancing its core search business, it did not make sense for Google to venture into the business of building a full-fledged portal like Yahoo. This is mainly because even though portal business did fit into the framework of Google’s mission which is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, a fully fledged portal is meant to offer access to a broad range of third party content and related services organized into various categories like Autos, Finance, Games, Health, Kids, Movies, Music, Shopping, Sports and Travel would be an additional cost. This is because, the portal would be creating an extensive and diverse source of information on a single platform which would require the use of various technologies, platforms and web-based applications to perform multiple procedures which would be an additional cost to Google compared with the cost of just maintaining its search engine site. Finally in the words Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO (2001-2011)……”we are not in the portal business, we’re in the business of making all the world’s information accessible and useful”, Google cannot envelop Yahoo but can opt to itemize all its product lines (Gmail, Finance, Google map, Google docs, Google books, and YouTube) in a simple and un-clustered manner on its Google homepage. 2. An ecommerce intermediate is meant to help customers shopping for a product to find a qualified seller in the electronic market...
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...marketing, which include; Product; Very easy to upload and sell a product online. Easy to adapt and change down to feedback from consumer. Price; internet makes it easy to get affordable prices which makes it very competitive to have the best price. Place; there is no limits with the internet you can sell worldwide it is accessible .Promotion; the internet makes this easy, using social media, websites etc being reactive and responsive . People; It strengths the business because without the consumer their would be no business and; the internet allows business and consumer to communicate with ease. Process; of how the product gets from the starting place to the consumer which is more efficient. The process of giving a service and how they deliver it. Physical evidence is how they have presented the product to the customer to entice them to buy it; data is more accessible online. Internet marketing has affected relationship marketing massively down to new technology retailer and customer can communicate much easier through social media, emails, twitter making things cheaper and more efficient. Which has strengthened the to one with the customer creating loyal customers and more sales .However it has also allowed cost effective gathering methods for examples surveys being sent through email completely free giving a company a whole new sector of information to specify their products to the customer’s needs. Reviews also help a company adapt and change a product down and...
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...Environmental Sustainability 5-6 4.4. Failures 4.5. Strategies 4. Distinctive Singapore Identity 7 5.6. Failures 5.7. Strategies 5. Online references 8 * Land Use Plan 2030 Singapore and A New Vision To it Creating Dynamic Economy * Creating a dynamic economy which will generate good jobs, opportunities and resources so as to invest in the city and the people thus help them achieve their aspirations. As poor growth also affect the people who are less educated and the employment. * Looking at the demographic profile it is seen that Singaporeans are becoming better educated with 70% of citizens aged 25-29 have diploma qualifications and above. By 2030 the expected rise in PMET jobs will be nearly 50% to about 1.25 million compared to 850,000 today while the other non-PMET jobs are expected to fall by 20% to about 650,000 compared to 850,000 today. By 2030, two-third jobs will be held by Singaporeans compared to about half today. * To create this number of good jobs it is needed to i. remain competitive to tap Asia’s growth, ii. make a strong Singaporean workforce, iii. Complement the Singaporean core with the foreign workforce. * Creating more commercial and urban centres near homes would help meet higher aspirations and new lifestyle preferences. As currently the employment sector is in western region and in the city while the housing is in the north and northeast eastern regions so people have...
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...development of web standards. The purpose of the W3C is to create standards that make the web accessible to all people, no matter what kind of hardware, software, network, language, culture, location or mental or physical ability. They are administered by a joint effort among three institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The European Research Consortium for Informatics and mathematics (ERCIM) and Keio University. Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the World Wide Web along with Dr. Jeffery Jaffe leads the W3C. However, the web community such as organization and individuals play a huge role in reviewing and providing input on the specifications created. W3C not only creates standards but also provide tutorials and tools for web professionals to hone their skills. Professional Knowledge Becoming a member of W3C is advantages because this organization can increase professional knowledge and abilities in the career field of web design, applications, and development. The W3C also provides tutorials and cheat sheets that clearly show the member how to implement standards so that they can create websites that anyone can access. They also help increase awareness of new web technologies that are vital in today’s rapid development landscape. W3C also gives you browser and authoring tools to help improve web development skills. One of the tools that has proven valuable when creating a website is the Markup Validation service. A member can run a website through the service...
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...The ADA has an enormous impact on any product out in the market today. Section 508 specifically addresses the IT Industry, advising that all electronic and Information Technology is accessible to people with disabilities. It is important for developers to have a clear understanding of the ADA and section 508 policies and guidelines so that all technologies are usable by all parties, including those with disabilities. Without that understanding, a lot of time, money, and efforts could be wasted on a product that may never hit the shelves! “The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against those with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities.” (Perez, T., no date) Section 508 states that the Federal Government must “ensure that the electronic and information technology that it develops, procures, maintains, or uses is accessible to persons with disabilities.” (SECTION 508 SURVEYS and REPORTS, no date.) Section 508 also requires each Federal department or agency to provide the Department of Justice with information to prepare reports for compliance to the Attorney General, who then submits it to the President and Congress. While all businesses, Government or non are required by law to adhere to the ADA’s policies and guidelines, based on my research only Federal Organizations are required to uphold section 508. That being said, this impacted anyone who did business with the Federal...
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