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  • Just-in-Time Cognitive Assessment and Task Recommendation for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments

    Sean-Ryan Smith · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This doctoral consortium paper proposes a mobile system that performs just-in-time cognitive assessment for people with cognitive impairments (CI), then uses those assessment results to recommend tasks the individual is most likely to be able to perform independently. The core…

    cognitive impairment · cognitive assessment · cognitive rehabilitation · assistive technology · mobile accessibility

  • Haptic Gloves for Audio-Tactile Web Accessibility

    Andrii Soviak · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This doctoral consortium paper proposes FeelX, a haptic glove system that would enable blind users to explore web page layouts through touch on any flat surface such as a desk or table. The core problem is that screen readers linearise web pages into a one-dimensional sequence…

    blindness · haptic technology · tactile interface · screen reader · web accessibility

  • What Not to Wearable: Using Participatory Workshops to Explore Wearable Device Form Factors for Blind Users

    Michele A. Williams, Erin Buehler, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper documents two participatory design workshops conducted with a team of eight visually impaired adults to explore features and form factors for a wearable navigation device. The research team met monthly over nine months as a "design team," with two sessions dedicated…

    wearable technology · participatory design · blind users · navigation · assistive technology

  • 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

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