Questionnaire

1 Personal Information

• Activity :

• Age :

• Sex : Male Female

• Visual deficiency : Blind Amblyopic

• Are you suffering from other handicap(s) : NO YES

  If YES, which one(s) :

• Can you read Braille ? YES NO

If you are interested in the result of this survey and of the study we are conducting, you can tell us where we can get in touch with you :

• Name :

• Address :

• Country :

• Phone :

• E-mail :

2 Use of spoken documents (with no musical content but, only recorded speech: talking book, report, radio programme...)

• Frequency of use of a spoken document :
  
  never
  twice or three times yearly
  twice or three times monthly
  twice or three times weekly
  daily

• What uses do you have of spoken documents ?
  
  leisure
  work
  news
  

  others :

• What kind of spoken documents do you use ?
  
  fiction
  technical information
  mail
  news
  

  others :

• Do you use a tape recorder to record personal notes ?
  
  never
  sometimes
  often

• Do you value the tape recorder for consulting spoken documents as being:
  
  very satisfactory
  satisfactory
  not really satisfactory

• If you are not satisfy, would you say that they are :
  
  too slow
  little ergonomic
  little functional
  

  others :

• Generally, do you take notes while listening to a spoken document ? YES NO

  If YES, do you use ?
  
  Braille on paper
  a tape recorder
  a computer
  an electronic notepad
  

  others :

3 Function of a consulting device

• What functionalities do you miss when consulting a spoken document ?
  
  fast motion forward/backward
  information about the document
  bookmark of the items read
  a retrieval parameter (sound level, delivery, ...)
  

  others :

• Can you suggest quality criteria a spoken document consulting device should have ?
  
  easy use by a learner
  easy access to various functions
  nomadic use (miniaturization)
  

  others :

3.1 Moving functions

• Tick off the kind of request that seems useful to you :
  
  go back to the beginning of the sentence/paragraph/chapter
  go to the last sentence/paragraph/chapter
  go to the third sentence of the first paragraph in chapter five
  repeat the three last words

• The indication of the current position within the document must be :
  
  in proportion of the size of the document (percentage)
  according to the structure of the document (ex : sentence 3 paragraph 2 chapter 1)
  

  others :

3.2 Functions for taking notes

• Does it seem important to you to be able to annotate a document ? YES NO
  
  If YES, the annotation must able to be :
  
  attached to a passage in a document (contextual annotation)
  independent from the document (global annotation)
  
  the annotation should be :
  
  private
  public
  
  and should be made in :
  
  an oral way
  a textual way

3.3 Functions for information

• Arrange in ascending order the general items of information concerning the document that you wish to obtain at first glance :
  
   the author's name
   the size of the document
   the date it was written
   a summary
   a list of key-words
  

  others :

• The size of the document must be expressed in :
  
  a time unit
  a number of bypes
  a number of sentences
  

  others :

• What characteristics of the voice would you like to be able to adjust ?
  
  pitch
  speed
  level

• Would you prefer to activate your command :
  
  through a keyboard
  by voice
  no preference
  

  others :

4 Using a computer

• Do you have access to a computer ? YES NO
  (If NO, jump to Section 5 "Not using a computer")

• In which environment do you use a computer ?
  
  private
  professionnal
  both
  
  

• What kind of computer do you use regularly ?
  
  PC
  MAC
  

  others :

• If PC, what kind of processor have you got ?
  
  I don't know
  < 486
  486
  pentium
  
  

• What is the capacity of the read only memory ?
  
  I don't know
  < 4 Mo
  between 4 et 16 Mo
  > 16 Mo
  
  

• What is the capacity of the storage memory ?
  
  I don't know
  < 200 Mo
  between 200 Mo et 1 Go
  > 1 Go

• Have you got a CD-ROM drive ? YES NO

• Do you use a Braille display ? YES NO

• Do you use a vocal synthesis ? YES NO

  If YES, what do you reproach them with ?
  
  bad quality of voice
  restitution clumsy use
  restitution too slow
  overabundance of information
  

  others :

• Do you use a scanner and an optical character recognition ? YES NO

• Could you rank the following tools in their order of usefulness for consulting a document ? (number them from the most useful to the less useful)
  
   Braille display
   vocal synthesis
   tape recorder
  

• Have you got access to the Internet network ? YES NO
  
  

• If YES, what use do you have of it ?
  
  private
  professional
  both
  

  What kind of information do you look for ?
  
  updates of events for blind people
  lists of new devices for visual impairment
  this week-end's weather
  news about your favourite group
  

  others :

• If NO, should you be interested ? YES NO

  What use would you have of this access ?
  
  I don't know
  updates of events for blind people
  lists of new devices for visual impairment
  this week-end's weather
  news about your favourite group
  

  others :

• For which reasons do you not use a computer ?
  
  reluctance to use new technologies
  tools too little suited to my needs
  price too high
  I just do not see the usefulness of it
  

  others :