Home Media Center
October 2004 - September 2007

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NCAM's Home Media Center project will research speech navigation solutions for next generation home media center platforms, which typically rely on complex onscreen menus not readily accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. Project activities will include:

• Creation of an accessible Linux-based home media center as a development platform
• Evaluation of other home media center devices, their accessibility needs and requirements
• Publication of source code and specifications for open source media center speech interface solutions enabled via keyboard and remote control
• Demonstration model of end-user control and navigation via a small-footprint speech interface on a personal communication device
• Publication of end-user interface research
• Final report that details the impact of project solutions and publications

Resources

• BLINUX Project
• AVS Home Theater Computers Forum
• Access World: Technology & People With Visual Impairments (American Foundation for the Blind)

Funders

Funding for the NCAM Home Media Center project is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.