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Analyzing visual questions from visually impaired users

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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Many new technologies have been developed to assist people who are visually impaired in learning about their environment, but there is little understanding of their motivations for using these tools. Our tool VizWiz allows users to take a picture using their mobile phone, ask a question about the picture's contents, and receive an answer in nearly realtime. This study investigates patterns in the questions that visually impaired users ask about their surroundings, and presents the benefits and limitations of responses from both human and computerized sources.

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Bigham, J. P., Jayant, C., et al. VizWiz: Nearly Real-time Answers to Visual Questions. UIST '10, ACM Press (2010).
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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2011
348 pages
ISBN:9781450309202
DOI:10.1145/2049536

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Published: 24 October 2011

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  1. blind users
  2. crowdsourcing
  3. non-visual interfaces
  4. q&a

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