The ORBIT India Dataset: Understanding the Challenges of Collecting a Disability-First AI Dataset in Low-Resource Environments
Gesu India, Martin Grayson, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Simon Robinson, Jennifer Pearson, Matt Jones · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This paper introduces ORBIT-India, the first teachable object recognition dataset contributed entirely by people who are blind or have low vision in India. It extends the UK/Canada-collected ORBIT dataset (Massiceti et al., 2021) to the Indian context — home of the world's…
AI · accessibility · datasets · teachable object recognition · vision impairment