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  • Accessibility and The Crowded Sidewalk: Micromobility's Impact on Public Space

    Cynthia L. Bennett, Emily Ackerman, Bonnie Fan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Patrick Carrington, Sarah Fox · 2021 · ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

    This paper examines how micromobility devices — e-scooters, dockless bikes, and autonomous personal delivery devices (PDDs) — impact the accessibility of public sidewalks and pathways for people with disabilities. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews with government…

    micromobility · public space · disability activism · urban accessibility · e-scooters

  • Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels

    Xiaoyi Zhang, Lilian de Greef, Amanda Swearngin, Samuel White, Kyle Murray, Lisa Yu, Qi Shan, Jeffrey Nichols, Jason Wu, Chris Fleizach, Aaron Everitt, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2021 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

    This paper from Apple introduces Screen Recognition, a system that automatically generates accessibility metadata for mobile apps by analyzing their visual pixels, enabling screen readers to work with apps that lack proper developer-provided accessibility information. The…

    mobile accessibility · screen readers · machine learning · object detection · VoiceOver

  • LineChaser: A Smartphone-Based Navigation System for Blind People to Stand in Lines

    Masaki Kuribayashi, Seita Kayukawa, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Shigeo Morishima · 2021 · Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

    Standing in line is a mundane-looking task — at a cashier, bus stop, or airport check-in — but for a blind person it is a brittle, anxiety-ridden sequence: find where the line currently ends (a position that moves), join it without bumping into anyone, and then shuffle forward…

    line detection · pedestrian detection · orientation and mobility · visual impairment · indoor navigation

  • Deaf Users' Preferences Among Wake-Up Approaches during Sign-Language Interaction with Personal Assistant Devices

    Vaishnavi Mande, Abraham Glasser, Becca Dingman, Matt Huenerfauth · 2021 · Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '21)

    This CHI 2021 Extended Abstract investigates a narrow but previously unexplored question: if future personal-assistant devices (Alexa, Google Assistant, etc.) could recognise sign language, how should Deaf users wake them up? Current wake-up mechanisms — speaking a wake-word…

    deaf and hard of hearing · sign language · personal assistants · voice interface · conversational user interfaces

  • Comparison of Methods for Evaluating Complexity of Simplified Texts among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults at Different Literacy Levels

    Oliver Alonzo, Jessica Trussell, Becca Dingman, Matt Huenerfauth · 2021 · Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)

    This CHI 2021 paper is the companion methodological study to Alonzo et al.'s 2022 fluency work: where that later paper asked how to evaluate the fluency (grammaticality) of simplified texts, this one asks how to evaluate their complexity (whether the simplification actually made…

    automatic text simplification · deaf and hard of hearing · readability · reading accessibility · research methodology