From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nuzhah GS Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:33 PM To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [bcab] Research study Hi, My name is Nuzhah and I am a PhD student with the Information Retrieval Group at Queen Mary University of London. My PhD research project is on "Complex Information Seeking Tasks by Visually Impaired Users" and is being supervised by Dr. Tassos Tombros and Dr. Tony Stockman. We are carrying out a research study to investigate how visually impaired users carry out information seeking tasks on the Web via web-based search systems. We are particularly interested in the challenges they face while using search interfaces with the help of assistive technology such as screen readers. We are looking for people to participate in this study. To make this as convenient for you as possible, we are very happy to travel to your work, or wherever is most convenient for you. If you would like to take part for an hour or so, please get in touch and let me know when you would be able to participate. If you do take part, we may video record what is on the computer screen as you use it, we will not be videoing yourself. All records will of course be stored in anonymised form. Apologies for any cross posting. Regards, Nuzhah -- Nuzhah Gooda Sahib Information Retrieval Group CS 437,Department of Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS