Featured Scholar: Davide Bolchini, PhD
Assistant Professor, IU School of Informatics
Enhancing Web Navigation for Aural Experiences
Dr. Bolchini's research seeks to identify the potential and limits of aural navigation paradigms to enhance the effectiveness of web navigation by performing a series of evaluation studies involving visually-impaired participants using screen readers and sighted participants using mobile devices. The navigation in a website is made possible by web pages which visually communicate virtually instantaneously extensive information, including content, overall semantics, orientation cues, and navigation possibilities. For users who are visually impaired or who cannot look at a screen while performing other tasks (e.g. driving or walking), this multidimensional communication may be difficult or even impossible to access. Existing aural technologies (e.g. screen readers, aural browsers) and web accessibility standards, although powerful and enabling, do not fully address this problem, as they read aloud content rather than conceptually translating a complex communication process. In this context, audio is a strictly linear channel which makes aural navigation in large information architectures a very difficult and frustrating task. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bolchini's research explores innovative design strategies for the aural navigation of complex web information architectures, where users exclusively or primarily listen to, rather than look at, content and navigational prompts.
Selected Publications in IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks
With several research works contributed to IU Indianapolis's free, open access repository, Dr. Bolchini has made translational research knowledge available to professionals, researchers, students, and communities around the world.
Davide Bolchini, Joe Abhishek Dara, Dhanashree Bhat, Shilpa Pachhapukur, and Yhareli Chamboneth. 2016 April 8. Fast and Discreet access to web services for the Blind through Screenless Browsing. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9861
Davide Bolchini (PI), Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Yuan Jia, Romisa R. Ghahari, and Jon Duke. 2016 April 8. From Critique to Collaboration: Rethinking Computerized Clinical Alerts. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9791
Palilonis, J., & Bolchini, D. (2015). Active Reading Behaviors in Tablet-based Learning. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 24(3), 235–261. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/10060
Bolchini, D., Yang, T., Gadde, P., Ghahari, RR. (2013, April 5). Navigating the Aural Web: Augmenting User Experience for Visually Impaired and Mobile Users. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/5490
Palilonis, J., Bolchini, D. (2013, April 5). InterActive Reading: Understanding Strategies Learners Useto Study Multimedia Content in Tablet-Based Textbooks. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/5488
Chattopadhyay, D. and Bolchini, D. (2013). Laid-Back, Touchless Collaboration around Wall-size Displays: Visual Feedback and Affordances. Position paper at POWERWALL Workshop at SIGCHI (CHI'13). https://hdl.handle.net/1805/4526
Romisa R Ghahari, Jennifer George-Palilonis, and Davide Bolchini. (2012, April 13). ANFORA (AURAL NAVIGATION FLOWS ON RICH ARCHITECTURES). Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7615
Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Li He, Yuan Jia and Davide Bolchini. (2012, April 13). NOVEL INTERACTION TECHNIQUES FOR COLLABORATING ON WALL-SIZED DISPLAYS. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7477
Davide Bolchini. (2012, April 13). Navigating the Aural Web: Listening-based Back Navigation in Large Architectures. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/7455
Davide Bolchini. (2011, April 8). Navigating the Aural Web. Poster session presented at IU Indianapolis Research Day 2016, Indianapolis, Indiana. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/10790