[HTML][HTML] Design and evaluation challenges of conversational agents in health care and well-being: selective review study

AB Kocaballi, E Sezgin, L Clark, JM Carroll… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Health care and well-being are 2 main interconnected application areas of
conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, and …

[HTML][HTML] Human–AI Collaboration for Remote Sighted Assistance: Perspectives from the LLM Era

R Yu, S Lee, J Xie, SM Billah, JM Carroll - Future Internet, 2024 - mdpi.com
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational technology aiding
people with visual impairments (VI) through real-time video chat communication with sighted …

Opportunities for human-AI collaboration in remote sighted assistance

S Lee, R Yu, J Xie, SM Billah, JM Carroll - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for
people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime …

Are Two Heads Better than One? Investigating Remote Sighted Assistance with Paired Volunteers

J Xie, R Yu, K Cui, S Lee, JM Carroll… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Remote Sighted Assistance (RSA) is a popular smartphone-mediated aid for people with
blindness, where a sighted individual converses with a blind individual in a one-on-one (1 …

Helping helpers: Supporting volunteers in remote sighted assistance with augmented reality maps

J Xie, R Yu, S Lee, Y Lyu, SM Billah… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive service, where
remote sighted workers, ie, agents, provide real-time assistance to blind users via video-chat …

Worker similarity-based noise correction for crowdsourcing

Y Hu, L Jiang, W Zhang - Information Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Crowdsourcing offers a cost-effective way to obtain multiple noisy labels for each instance
by employing multiple crowd workers. Then label integration is used to infer its integrated …

Emerging practices for large multimodal model (lmm) assistance for people with visual impairments: Implications for design

J Xie, R Yu, H Zhang, S Lee, SM Billah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
People with visual impairments perceive their environment non-visually and often use AI-
powered assistive tools to obtain textual descriptions of visual information. Recent large …

“Dump it, Destroy it, Send it to Data Heaven”: Blind People's Expectations for Visual Privacy in Visual Assistance Technologies

A Stangl, E Sadjo, P Emami-Naeini, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Visual assistance technologies provide people who are blind with access to information
about their visual surroundings by digitally connecting them to remote humans or artificial …

A Dataset for Crucial Object Recognition in Blind and Low-Vision Individuals' Navigation

MT Islam, I Kabir, EA Pearce, MA Reza… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a dataset for improving real-time object recognition systems to aid
blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals in navigation tasks. The dataset comprises 21 videos …

Towards Accessible Musical Performances in Virtual Reality: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Omnidirectional Audio Descriptions

K Dang, G Burke, H Korreshi, S Lee - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Our research focuses on making musical performance experience in virtual reality (VR)
settings non-visually accessible for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) individuals by designing a …