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Catia Prandi · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)
This doctoral consortium paper presents mPASS (mobile Pervasive Accessibility Social Sensing), a research project from the University of Bologna that applies the concept of Smart Data to urban accessibility. The paper argues that while crowdsourcing and personal sensing generate…
accessible maps · crowdsourcing · smart data · urban accessibility · user modeling
Chieko Asakawa · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)
This keynote paper by Chieko Asakawa of IBM Research presents a vision for the next frontier of accessibility for blind people: moving from digital information access to real-world understanding through cognitive computing. Asakawa charts the exponential growth of accessible…
blindness · cognitive assistance · image recognition · computer vision · machine learning
Alexander Fiannaca, Ilias Apostolopoulous, Eelke Folmer · 2014 · ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility
This paper presents HEADLOCK, a navigation aid for optical head-mounted displays (OHMDs) like Google Glass that helps blind cane users traverse large open spaces—environments that are particularly challenging because they lack the tactile features (walls, corridors, floor…
visual impairment · blindness · navigation · wayfinding · wearable technology
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