Tools and technologies for blind and visually impaired navigation support: a review

B Kuriakose, R Shrestha, FE Sandnes - IETE Technical Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The development of navigation tools for people who are visually impaired had become an
important concern in the research area of assistive technologies. This paper gives a …

What do we mean by “accessibility research”? A literature survey of accessibility papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

K Mack, E McDonnell, D Jain, L Lu Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been
no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and …

Reliability and inter-rater reliability in qualitative research: Norms and guidelines for CSCW and HCI practice

N McDonald, S Schoenebeck, A Forte - … of the ACM on human-computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
What does reliability mean for building a grounded theory? What about when writing an auto-
ethnography? When is it appropriate to use measures like inter-rater reliability (IRR) …

Interdependence as a frame for assistive technology research and design

CL Bennett, E Brady, SM Branham - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe interdependence for assistive technology design, a frame
developed to complement the traditional focus on independence in the Assistive Technology …

The care work of access

CL Bennett, DK Rosner, AS Taylor - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Current approaches to AI and Assistive Technology (AT) often foreground task completion
over other encounters such as expressions of care. Our paper challenges and complements …

Towards a multisensory augmented reality map for blind and low vision people: A participatory design approach

J Albouys-Perrois, J Laviole, C Briant… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Current low-tech Orientation & Mobility (O&M) tools for visually impaired people, eg tactile
maps, possess limitations. Interactive accessible maps have been developed to overcome …

Airport accessibility and navigation assistance for people with visual impairments

J Guerreiro, D Ahmetovic, D Sato, K Kitani… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
People with visual impairments often have to rely on the assistance of sighted guides in
airports, which prevents them from having an independent travel experience. In order to …

Virtual navigation for blind people: Transferring route knowledge to the real-World

J Guerreiro, D Sato, D Ahmetovic, E Ohn-Bar… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Independent navigation is challenging for blind people, particularly in unfamiliar
environments. Navigation assistive technologies try to provide additional support by guiding …

Closing the gap: Designing for the last-few-meters wayfinding problem for people with visual impairments

M Saha, AJ Fiannaca, M Kneisel, E Cutrell… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Despite the major role of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as a navigation tool for people
with visual impairments (VI), a crucial missing aspect of point-to-point navigation with these …

Hacking, switching, combining: understanding and supporting DIY assistive technology design by blind people

J Herskovitz, A Xu, R Alharbi, A Guo - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and
visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in …