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Pictures in Your Mind: Using Interactive Gesture-Controlled Reliefs to Explore Art
- Andreas Reichinger,
- Helena Garcia Carrizosa,
- Joanna Wood,
- Svenja Schröder,
- Christian Löw,
- Laura Rosalia Luidolt,
- Maria Schimkowitsch,
- Anton Fuhrmann,
- Stefan Maierhofer,
- Werner Purgathofer
Tactile reliefs offer many benefits over the more classic raised line drawings or tactile diagrams, as depth, 3D shape, and surface textures are directly perceivable. Although often created for blind and visually impaired (BVI) people, a wider range of ...
Designing Gesture-Based Applications for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: Guidelines from User Studies in India
- Sumita Sharma,
- Blessin Varkey,
- Krishnaveni Achary,
- Jaakko Hakulinen,
- Markku Turunen,
- Tomi Heimonen,
- Saurabh Srivastava,
- Nitendra Rajput
Gesture interaction provides a multitude of benefits to individuals with developmental disabilities, from enhancing social, motor and cognitive skills to providing a safe and controlled environment for simulating real-world scenarios. As gesture-based ...
WeAllWalk: An Annotated Dataset of Inertial Sensor Time Series from Blind Walkers
We introduce WeAllWalk, a dataset of inertial sensor time series collected from blind and sighted walkers using a long cane or a guide dog. Ten blind volunteers (seven using a long cane, one using a guide dog, and two alternating use of a long cane and ...
Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data
- Hernisa Kacorri,
- Sergio Mascetti,
- Andrea Gerino,
- Dragan Ahmetovic,
- Valeria Alampi,
- Hironobu Takagi,
- Chieko Asakawa
Assistive applications for orientation and mobility promote independence for people with visual impairment (PVI). While typical design and evaluation of such applications involves small-sample iterative studies, we analyze large-scale longitudinal data ...
Tenets for Social Accessibility: Towards Humanizing Disabled People in Design
Despite years of addressing disability in technology design and advocating user-centered design practices, popular mainstream technologies remain largely inaccessible for people with disabilities. We conducted a design course study investigating how ...