Sighted eye for the blind guy: providing personalized responses to visual questions

  • Authors:
  • Michele A. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • UMBC, Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Technology has fostered many opportunities for increased independence for people with vision impairments, often making visual information available (such as screen readers announcing on-screen text). However, not all entities are made accessible simply by translating visual information into another medium. Many situations present questions that are complex, context-filled, and require personalized responses often based on feedback from others. Our research has encountered such challenges in two specific domains: fashion and pedestrian navigation. Though inroads for providing personalized responses are being made via question-asking and social networking Internet systems and other collaborative technologies, there is no clear ideal solution for facilitating personalized question asking. Thus our work intends to contribute a typology of questions and propose the best technological solutions to help facilitate reliable, trusted responses.