TY - GEN
T1 - Improving mealtime experiences of people with visual impairments
AU - Chung, Seung A.
AU - Park, Soobin
AU - Park, Sohyeon
AU - Lee, Kyungyeon
AU - Oh, Uran
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program (IITP-2020-0-01460) supervised by the IITP(Institute of Information Communications Technology Planning Evaluation).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/4/19
Y1 - 2021/4/19
N2 - A number of studies have been conducted to understand the accessibility issues that people with visual impairments experience. However, most of these are limited to navigation and object recognition tasks. In this study, we focused on providing mealtime assistance. We first conducted a preliminary online survey with 91 participants and an in-depth interview study with eight participants with visual impairments and two social workers. Based on the findings, we identified various difficulties that people with visual impairments face during mealtimes, and types of dish-related information they wish to get before and during meals. To understand the implications for designing the interaction of a meal assistance system for people with visual impairments, we then implemented a prototype in a virtual environment and conducted another user study with 7 participants for evaluation. Reflecting the findings, we suggest design recommendations for a future meal assistance system for people with visual impairments so that they can enjoy their meals independently.
AB - A number of studies have been conducted to understand the accessibility issues that people with visual impairments experience. However, most of these are limited to navigation and object recognition tasks. In this study, we focused on providing mealtime assistance. We first conducted a preliminary online survey with 91 participants and an in-depth interview study with eight participants with visual impairments and two social workers. Based on the findings, we identified various difficulties that people with visual impairments face during mealtimes, and types of dish-related information they wish to get before and during meals. To understand the implications for designing the interaction of a meal assistance system for people with visual impairments, we then implemented a prototype in a virtual environment and conducted another user study with 7 participants for evaluation. Reflecting the findings, we suggest design recommendations for a future meal assistance system for people with visual impairments so that they can enjoy their meals independently.
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Interview
KW - Meal assistance
KW - Online survey
KW - System design
KW - Visual impairments
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107350468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3430263.3452421
DO - 10.1145/3430263.3452421
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107350468
T3 - Proceedings of the 18th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2021
BT - Proceedings of the 18th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2021
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 18th International Web for All Conference, W4A 2021
Y2 - 19 April 2021 through 20 April 2021
ER -