Presented at CSUN 2014, this project is a a contracted endeavor through Benetech's DIAGRAM Center. These slides represent Year 2's work in developing a template-guided system to assist and crowd source novice individuals to create high quality image descriptions.

1. DIAGRAM Center’s
Tools for Improving
Image Descriptions:
Description Templates
#CSUN14
Josh Miele, Ting Siu,
Val Morash, Lucia Hasty, and
Steve Landau for
Touch Graphics, Inc.
@TouchGraphicsUS

2. Pearson
subject
Total
images
No
description
needed
Needing
description
Majors Biology 2005 270 87%
Intro Psych 525 90 83%
US History 1226 420 66%
US Government 352 46 87%
Communication 154 42 73%
Interpersonal
Communication 176 39 78%
Intro to SPED 176 150 15%
Ed Psych 175 120 31%
Ed Research 53 16 70%

5. Description Template Tool:
Venn Diagram, Pie Chart, Line Graph

6. Evaluation Experiment
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 8
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 8
n = 20
with template
without template

7. Evaluation Experiment
With
Template
Without
Template
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 8
10 observations
● Time
● Word Count
● Accuracy
● Usefulness
Analysis:
● ANOVA
● Post Hoc T-
Tests

8. Project collaborators:
● Josh Miele, Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Center
● Steve Landau, Touch Graphics, Inc.
● Lucia Hasty, Rocky Mountain Braille Associates
● Yue-Ting Siu, University of California, Berkeley
● Val Morash, University of California, Berkeley
Project Management for Benetech
● Julie Noblitt, DIAGRAM Center
● Anh Bui, DIAGRAM Center
This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
(Cooperative Agreement #H327B100001). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and
do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.

9. For further information please contact:
Steve Landau
email: sl@touchgraphics.com
phone: 800-884-2440
To register as a field tester in upcoming user trials please contact:
Ting Siu
email: ts@touchgraphics.com
For more information about DIAGRAM Center, please contact:
Anh Bui
email: anhb@benetech.org
phone: 650-644-3400