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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Assembling the senses: towards the design of cooperative interfaces for visually impaired users
The needs of blind and visually impaired users are seriously under-investigated in CSCW. We review work on assistive interfaces especially concerning how collaboration between sig...
Fredrik Winberg, John Bowers
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A visual recipe book for persons with language impairments
Cooking is a daily activity for many people. However, traditional text recipes are often prohibitively difficult to follow for people with language disorders, such as aphasia. We ...
Kimberly Tee, Karyn Moffatt, Leah Findlater, Eve M...
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Natural person-following behavior for social robots
We are developing robots with socially appropriate spatial skills not only to travel around or near people, but also to accompany people side-by-side. As a step toward this goal, ...
Rachel Gockley, Jodi Forlizzi, Reid G. Simmons
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Recommending collaboration with social networks: a comparative evaluation
Studies of information seeking and workplace collaboration often find that social relationships are a strong factor in determining who collaborates with whom. Social networks prov...
David W. McDonald