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- demonstrationMay 2019
Write-it-Yourself: Empowering Blind People to Independently Fill-out Paper Forms
W4A '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All ConferenceArticle No.: 16, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3315002.3332447Filling out printed forms (e.g., checks) independently is currently impossible for blind people, since they cannot pinpoint the locations of the form fields, and quite often, they cannot even figure out what fields (e.g., name) are present in the form. ...
- research-articleMay 2019
Designing Personalized Therapy Tools for People with Dementia
W4A '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All ConferenceArticle No.: 33, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3315002.3317571Non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia benefit from the usage of personalized materials. These are not always easy to obtain. In a set of formative studies, we looked at how clinical staff and families recur to the usage of ...
- research-articleMay 2019
SafeExit4AII: An Inclusive Indoor Emergency Evacuation System for People With Disabilities
W4A '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All ConferenceArticle No.: 29, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3315002.3317569Indoor wayfinding has remained a challenge for people with disabilities in unfamiliar environments. With some accessible indoor wayfinding systems coming to the fore recently, a major application of interest is that of emergency evacuation due to ...
- research-articleMay 2019
Impact of Expertise on Interaction Preferences for Navigation Assistance of Visually Impaired Individuals
W4A '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All ConferenceArticle No.: 31, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3315002.3317561Navigation assistive technologies have been designed to support individuals with visual impairments during independent mobility by providing sensory augmentation and contextual awareness of their surroundings. Such information is habitually provided ...
- research-articleMay 2019
An Independent and Interactive Museum Experience for Blind People
- Saki Asakawa,
- João Guerreiro,
- Daisuke Sato,
- Hironobu Takagi,
- Dragan Ahmetovic,
- Desi Gonzalez,
- Kris M. Kitani,
- Chieko Asakawa
W4A '19: Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All ConferenceArticle No.: 30, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3315002.3317557Museums are gradually becoming more accessible to blind people, who have shown interest in visiting museums and in appreciating visual art. Yet, their ability to visit museums is still dependent on the assistance they get from their family and friends ...