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• Investigating the Appropriateness of Social Network Question Asking as a Resource for Blind Users

  Erin L. Brady, Yu Zhong, Meredith Ringel Morris, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2013 · Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013)

  This paper explores whether social networking sites (SNSs) are a viable alternative to paid crowdsourcing for answering blind users' visual questions. The research combines three methods: a survey of 191 blind adults about their social networking habits and attitudes toward…

  social media accessibility · blind users · crowdsourcing · friendsourcing · visual question answering

• Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People

  Erin Brady, Meredith Ringel Morris, Yu Zhong, Samuel White, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2013 · CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper presents the findings of a year-long large-scale study of VizWiz Social, an iPhone application that allows blind users to take a photograph, record a spoken question about it, and receive answers from crowd workers or social contacts within about a minute. Between May…

  blind users · crowdsourcing · mobile accessibility · VizWiz · visual question answering

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