Dr. Graham McAllister

Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
Tel: +44 28 9097 5492
Email: g.mcallister@qub.ac.uk
Web: www.web4blind.org/

Interests

Dr. Graham McAllister's research interests focus on the area of HCI, in particular accessibility and usability. His current research projects explore the area of representing visual information using multi-modal feedback.

Current projects

Multimodal Internet Access

Publications

Murphy, E., Kuber, R., McAllister, G., Strain, P. & Yu, W. (2008) An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired internet users. Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, 7(1), 79-91, March.

Murphy, E., Kuber, R., Strain, P., McAllister, G. & Yu, W. (2007) Developing sounds for a multimodal interface: conveying spatial information to visually impaired web users. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference for Auditory Display, Montreal, Canada, 26-29 June 2007.

Murphy, E., McAllister, G., Strain, P., Kuber, R. & Yu, W. (2005) Audio for a non-visual assistive web plug-in. Proceedings of 11th International Conference for Auditory Display (ICAD05) Workshop Combining Speech and Sound in the User Interface, Limerick, Ireland, 6-9 July 2005.

Yu, W., Kuber, R., Murphy, E., Strain, P. & McAllister, G. (2005) A novel multimodal interface for improving visually impaired people's web accessibility. Virtual Reality on Haptic Interfaces and Applications, 9(2), 133-148, January.

Yu, W., McAllister, G., Murphy, E., Kuber, R. & Strain, P. (2005) Developing multi-modal interfaces for visually impaired people to access the internet. Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Las Vegas, USA, 22-27 July 2005.

Yu, W., McAllister, G. & Dodds, G. (2004) Multimodal interfaces for visually impaired people to access internet. Proceedings of 8th ERCIM Workshop - User Interfaces For All, Vienna, Austria, 28-29 June 2004.