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• Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art

  Andreas Reichinger, Helena Garcia Carrizosa, Joanna Wood, Svenja Schröder, Christian Löw, Laura Rosalia Luidolt, Maria Schimkowitsch, Anton Fuhrmann, Stefan Maierhofer, Werner Purgathofer · 2018 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents an interactive audio guide (IAG) system that combines 3D-printed tactile reliefs with gesture-controlled, location-dependent audio descriptions to make visual art accessible to blind, visually impaired, and cognitively disabled users. Traditional tactile…

  tactile graphics · museum accessibility · blind and visually impaired · audio description · gesture interaction

• A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments

  Davide Mulfari · 2018 · Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract presents a wearable computer vision system that uses deep learning to classify objects in a blind user’s surroundings and provide audio descriptions via text-to-speech. The system addresses a limitation of smartphone-based object recognition apps: people…

  computer vision · deep learning · blind · visual impairment · wearable technology

• The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments

  Saki Asakawa, João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18, Poster)

  This short ASSETS '18 poster paper is the formative survey that motivated much of the later Miraikan and CaBot museum-accessibility work from the same research group. The authors conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 19 people with visual impairments (16 totally…

  museum accessibility · visual impairment · indoor navigation · tactile replicas · audio description

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