Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems
Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems
A diary study of mobile information needs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
What do people ask their social networks, and why?: a survey study of status message q&a behavior
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The aligned rank transform for nonparametric factorial analyses using only anova procedures
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
In the shadow of misperception: assistive technology use and social interactions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding mobile web and mobile search use in today's dynamic mobile landscape
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
The design of human-powered access technology
The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Asking questions of targeted strangers on social networks
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Direct answers for search queries in the long tail
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding mobile Q&A usage: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Investigating the appropriateness of social network question asking as a resource for blind users
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Real time object scanning using a mobile phone and cloud-based visual search engine
Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Answering visual questions with conversational crowd assistants
Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sighted eye for the blind guy: providing personalized responses to visual questions
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Hi-index | 0.01 |
The challenges faced by blind people in their everyday lives are not well understood. In this paper, we report on the findings of a large-scale study of the visual questions that blind people would like to have answered. As part of this year-long study, 5,329 blind users asked 40,748 questions about photographs that they took from their iPhones using an application called VizWiz Social. We present a taxonomy of the types of questions asked, report on a number of features of the questions and accompanying photographs, and discuss how individuals changed how they used VizWiz Social over time. These results improve our understanding of the problems blind people face, and may help motivate new projects more accurately targeted to help blind people live more independently in their everyday lives.