Emma Murphy

Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
Tel: +44 28 90974761
Email: e.murphy@qub.ac.uk
Web: www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~emurphy/index.html

Interests

Emma Murphy is a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast. She is currently developing non-visual methods for interacting with the Internet through audio feedback as part of the Multi-modal Internet Access Project.

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.