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CVHI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Body Mounted Vision System for Visually Impaired Outdoor and Indoor Wayfinding Assistance
: The most challenging issue of the navigation assistive systems for the visually impaired is the instantaneous and accurate spatial localization of the user. Most of the previous ...
Sylvie Treuillet, Eric Royer, Thierry Chateau, Mic...
DIMEA
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Toward accessible 3D virtual environments for the blind and visually impaired
3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital ...
Gareth R. White, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Graham McA...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Web document summaries provide the sighted reader with a basis for making decisions regarding the route to take within non-linear text; and additi...
Simon Harper, Neha Patel
ISMIR
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Music Interface for Visually Impaired People in the WEDELMUSIC Environment. Design and Architecture
: In this poster we present the architecture of a new music interface for blind musicians, integrated in the WEDELMUSIC1 environment which is under development at ILSP2 . Our scope...
Anastasia Georgaki, Spyros N. Raptis, Stelios Baka...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Where's my stuff?: design and evaluation of a mobile system for locating lost items for the visually impaired
Finding lost items is a common problem for the visually impaired and is something that computing technology can help alleviate. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation...
Julie A. Kientz, Shwetak N. Patel, Arwa Z. Tyebkha...
ACMSE
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A speech recognition and synthesis tool
Many of the new technologies designed to help worldwide communication
Hala ElAarag, Laura Schindler
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Robots as interfaces to haptic and locomotor spaces
Research on spatial cognition and navigation of the visually impaired suggests that vision may be a primary sensory modality that enables humans to align the egocentric (self to o...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Cassidy ...
ASSETS
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Accessible spaces: navigating through a marked environment with a camera phone
We demonstrate a system designed to assist a visually impaired individual while moving in an unfamiliar environment. Small and economical color markers are placed in key locations...
Kee-Yip Chan, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan
HT
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The travails of visually impaired web travellers
This paper proposes the inclusion of travel and mobility in the usability metrics of web design. Hypertext design and usability has traditionally concentrated upon navigation and/...
Carole A. Goble, Simon Harper, Robert Stevens
ICCHP
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Mobile Phone Application Enabling Visually Impaired Users to Find and Read Product Barcodes
Abstract. While there are many barcode readers available for identifying products in a supermarket or at home on mobile phones (e.g., Red Laser iPhone app), such readers are inacce...
Ender Tekin, James M. Coughlan