TactileFace: a system for enabling access to face photos by visually-impaired people

Authors:
Nan Li;Zheshen Wang;Jesus Yuriar;Baoxin Li
Affiliations:
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA;Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA;Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA;Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Face photos/Portraits play an important role in people's social and emotional life. Unfortunately, this type of media is inaccessible to people with visual impairment. We propose a novel, prototypical system that was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of bridging this accessibility gap through automatic and realtime conversion of face images into their tactile counterparts. Unlike conventional and existing tactile conversion efforts, which are largely done by human specialists, the proposed system serves to provide an intelligent interface between blind computer users and this important type of media, human face images.