Abstract
One of the reasons that people with visual impairments have difficulties in enjoying artworks is the limited number of accessible artworks. To enable people with visual impairments to explore and understand various artworks independently, we built a touchscreen-based mobile application as a prototype focusing on 2D paintings which plays object-level verbal descriptions upon users' touch. To confirm the needs and to collect initial feedback from potential users of such a system, we conducted an exploratory study with 8 participants with visual impairments using the prototype as a design probe. Overall, participants appreciated the prototype as they can learn artworks with less physical and time constraints while listening for details of contents as they explore each painting by touch.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 600-602 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450366762 |
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| State | Published - 24 Oct 2019 |
| Event | 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 28 Oct 2019 → 30 Oct 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
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Conference
| Conference | 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Period | 28/10/19 → 30/10/19 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Art paintings
- Explore-by-touch
- Image understanding
- Visual impairment