Audio Editing with a Game Controller for Blind Users

One could regard blind people as predestined for professions in which digital audio material is processed, e.g. at radio stations. Even when using assistive technology, editing audio files can be difficult for blind people, because the interfaces of established audio editing software are optimized for visual perception. We concentrated on the development of an operating concept that allows a blind person without prior knowledge of the application to quickly complete basic tasks in audio editing by means of an acoustical user interface (AUI).