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ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Perceiving graphical and pictorial information via touch and hearing
With the ever increasing availability of the Internet and electronic media rich in graphical and pictorial information – for communication, commerce, entertainment, art, educati...
Pubudu Madhawa Silva, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Josh...
W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive SIGHT into information graphics
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...
Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stepha...
UIC
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Smartphone-Based Obstacle Sensor for the Visually Impaired
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...
En Peng, Patrick Peursum, Ling Li, Svetha Venkates...
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
BrlAPI: Simple, Portable, Concurrent, Application-level Control of Braille Terminals
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...
Samuel Thibault, Sébastien Hinderer
ASSETS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Leveraging proprioception to make mobile phones more accessible to users with visual impairments
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 ...
Frank Chun Yat Li, David Dearman, Khai N. Truong
ASSETS
2008
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Investigating sighted users' browsing behaviour to assist web accessibility
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 ...
Eleni Michailidou, Simon Harper, Sean Bechhofer
IADIS
2003
14 years 24 days ago
A Multimodal Interface for Digital Talking Books
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...
Carlos Duarte, Teresa Chambel, Luís Carri&c...
GAMEON
2003
14 years 24 days ago
An Actor Architecture to Develop Games for Blind Children
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...
Cyrille Bertelle, Antoine Dutot, Sylvain Lerebourg...
AAAI
2004
14 years 25 days ago
A Robotic Wayfinding System for the Visually Impaired
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...
Vladimir A. Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Pradnya ...
HCI
2007
14 years 26 days ago
An RFID-Based Point-and-Listen Interface Providing Library Access for the Visually Impaired
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 ...
Daniel Fallman, Kent Lindbergh, Oskar Fjellstrom, ...