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  • Exploring Object Status Recognition for Recipe Progress Tracking in Non-Visual Cooking

    Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu, Patrick Carrington · 2025 · ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

    This paper presents OSCAR (Object Status Context Awareness for Recipes), a technical pipeline that uses object status recognition—tracking the condition and transformation of ingredients and tools—to support recipe progress tracking for blind and low vision (BLV) cooks. Unlike…

    blind and low vision · cooking accessibility · context awareness · object recognition · computer vision

  • Automated Class Discovery and One-Shot Interactions for Acoustic Activity Recognition

    Jason Wu, Chris Harrison, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Gierad Laput · 2020 · Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20)

    This paper presents Listen Learner, an end-to-end system for acoustic activity recognition that automatically discovers and learns to classify environmental sounds with minimal user effort. Traditional approaches to sound recognition face a tradeoff: custom models trained in a…

    acoustic activity recognition · smart home · machine learning · Internet of Things · context awareness

  • Designing a Context Aware AAC Solution

    Conor McKillop · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

    This student research competition paper explores the design of a context-aware AAC keyboard prototype that uses mobile device sensors — particularly GPS and Wi-Fi positioning — to suggest location-relevant phrases and categories for people with speech, language, and…

    augmentative and alternative communication · context awareness · word prediction · cerebral palsy · mobile accessibility

  • Automatic Task Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth - A User Study with the TEBRA System

    Christian Peters, Thomas Hermann, Sven Wachsmuth, Jesse Hoey · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper presents TEBRA (TEeth BRushing Assistance), an Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC) system that supports people with moderate cognitive disabilities in brushing their teeth independently. The research addresses a fundamental challenge: people with cognitive…

    cognitive disability · assistive technology · activities of daily living · dementia · intellectual disability

  • CATPro: context-aware task prompting system with multiple modalities for individuals with cognitive impairments

    Wan Chih Chang · 2008 · Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

    This short paper presents CATPro (Context-Aware Task Prompting), a system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments perform daily living and workplace tasks more independently. The system targets people with a range of conditions including traumatic brain injury,…

    cognitive disability · task prompting · context awareness · supported employment · ubiquitous computing

  • A context aware handheld wayfinding system for individuals with cognitive impairments

    Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Tsen-Yung Wang · 2008 · Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

    This paper presents a context-aware wayfinding system designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments navigate indoor environments independently, with a focus on workplace and community travel. The system consists of three components: a handheld PDA (ASUS P525 with…

    cognitive disability · wayfinding · QR code · ubiquitous computing · navigation

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