ApplianceReader: A Wearable, Crowdsourced, Vision-based System to Make Appliances Accessible
Anhong Guo, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2015 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
This work-in-progress paper presents ApplianceReader, a wearable system that combines a point-of-view camera (Google Glass) with crowdsourcing and computer vision to make everyday appliance control panels accessible to people with visual impairments. The system addresses a…
appliance accessibility · crowdsourcing · computer vision · wearable technology · blindness