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ASSETS
2006
ACM
15 years 1 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...
HCI
2011
14 years 1 months ago
BrailleTouch: Mobile Texting for the Visually Impaired
BrailleTouch is an eyes-free text entry application for mobile devices. Currently, there exist a number of hardware and software solutions for eyes-free text entry. Unfortunately, ...
Brian Frey, Caleb Southern, Mario Romero
CHI
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Constructing moving pictures eyes-free: an animation tool for the blind
Visually impaired people constantly interpret moving phenomena in the real world; they do not lack the skills to understand the meaning of what is portrayed in an animation. Howev...
Hesham M. Kamel, James A. Landay
ASSETS
2007
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Equipping designers by simulating the effects of visual and hearing impairments
This paper describes a software tool that demonstrates the effects of common vision and hearing impairments on image and sound files. This helps designers to understand and empath...
Joy Goodman-Deane, Patrick Langdon, P. John Clarks...
ICWE
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Screen Readers Cannot See: Ontology Based Semantic Annotation for Visually Impaired Web Travellers
ct Travelling upon the Web is difficult for visually impaired users since the Web pages are designed for visual interaction [6]. Visually impaired users usually use screen readers...
Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper, Carole A. Goble, Rob...