ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2011
IEEE
With the ever increasing availability of the Internet and electronic media rich in graphical and pictorial information – for communication, commerce, entertainment, art, educati...
W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
Information graphics (such as bar charts and line graphs) play a vital role in many multimodal documents. Unfortunately, visually impaired individuals who use screen reader progra...
UIC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we present a real-time obstacle detection system for the mobility improvement for the visually impaired using a handheld Smartphone. Though there are many existing a...
CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Screen readers can drive braille devices for allowing visually impaired users to access computer environments, by providing them the same information as sighted users. But in some...
ASSETS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Accessing the advanced functions of a mobile phone is not a trivial task for users with visual impairments. They rely on screen readers and voice commands to discover and execute ...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2008
ACM
The rapid advancement of World Wide Web (Web) technology and constant need for attractive Websites produce pages that hinder visually impaired users. We assert that understanding ...
IADIS
2003
14 years 2 days ago
2003
This paper presents a framework for the production of digital talking books. These books target primarily the visually impaired community, but users with other characteristics can...
GAMEON
2003
14 years 2 days ago
2003
In this article, we are interested in providing a framework to develop games for visually impaired or blind children. In this context, we propose a tool set to ease the creation o...
AAAI
2004
14 years 3 days ago
2004
We present an emerging indoor assisted navigation system for the visually impaired. The core of the system is a mobile robotic base with a sensor suite mounted on it. The sensor s...
HCI
2007
14 years 4 days ago
2007
Abstract. We present the AudioIndex prototype, a light-weight mobile RFIDbased point-and-listen interface that allows visually impaired to browse and search for audio books within ...