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Research to Market Transition of Mobile Assistive Technologies for People with Visual Impairments

Authors:

Sergio Mascetti,

Dragan Ahmetovic, and

Cristian BernareggiAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2019

Pages 440 - 445

https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3355618

Published: 24 October 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Mobile devices are accessible to people with visual impairments and hence they are convenient platforms to support assistive technologies. Indeed, in the last years many scientific contributions proposed assistive applications for mobile devices. However, few of these solutions were eventually delivered to end-users, depriving people with disabilities of important assistive tools. The underlying problem is that a number of challenges need to be faced for transitioning assistive mobile applications from research to market.

This contribution reports authors' experience in the academic research and successive distribution of three mobile assistive applications for people with visual impairment. As a general message, we describe the relevant characteristics of the target population, analyze different models of transition from academic research to end-users distribution and show how the transitioning process has a positive impact on research.

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Souza LFrancisco RRosa Tavares JBarbosa J(2024)Intelligent environments and assistive technologies for assisting visually impaired people: a systematic literature reviewUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-024-01117-yOnline publication date: 3-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-024-01117-y
Bhatnagar TBandukda MBell DHolloway C(2023)It's a Much Harder Journey: Scaling Assistive Technology Innovations to New Markets in AfricaProceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3628096.3629056(190-200)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628096.3629056

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ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2019

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ISBN:9781450366762

DOI:10.1145/3308561

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Carnegie Mellon University., USA
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Cornell Tech, USA
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Souza LFrancisco RRosa Tavares JBarbosa J(2024)Intelligent environments and assistive technologies for assisting visually impaired people: a systematic literature reviewUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-024-01117-yOnline publication date: 3-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-024-01117-y
Bhatnagar TBandukda MBell DHolloway C(2023)It's a Much Harder Journey: Scaling Assistive Technology Innovations to New Markets in AfricaProceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3628096.3629056(190-200)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628096.3629056

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