TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting everyday activities for persons with visual impairments through computer vision-augmented touch
AU - Findlater, Leah
AU - Stearns, Lee
AU - Du, Ruofei
AU - Oh, Uran
AU - Ross, David
AU - Chellappa, Rama
AU - Froehlich, Jon E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/10/26
Y1 - 2015/10/26
N2 - The HandSight project investigates how wearable micro-cameras can be used to augment a blind or visually impaired user's sense of touch with computer vision. Our goal is to support an array of activities of daily living by sensing and feeding back non-tactile information (e.g., color, printed text, patterns) about an object as it is touched. In this poster paper, we provide an overview of the project, our current proof-of-concept prototype, and a summary of findings from finger-based text reading studies. As this is an early-stage project, we also enumerate current open questions.
AB - The HandSight project investigates how wearable micro-cameras can be used to augment a blind or visually impaired user's sense of touch with computer vision. Our goal is to support an array of activities of daily living by sensing and feeding back non-tactile information (e.g., color, printed text, patterns) about an object as it is touched. In this poster paper, we provide an overview of the project, our current proof-of-concept prototype, and a summary of findings from finger-based text reading studies. As this is an early-stage project, we also enumerate current open questions.
KW - Blind
KW - Computer vision
KW - Vision-augmented touch
KW - Visually impaired
KW - Wearable computing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962652559&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2700648.2811381
DO - 10.1145/2700648.2811381
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962652559
T3 - ASSETS 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 383
EP - 384
BT - ASSETS 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2015
Y2 - 26 October 2015 through 28 October 2015
ER -