Wearable augmented reality: research trends and future directions from three major venues

TTM Tran, S Brown, O Weidlich… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable Augmented Reality (AR) has attracted considerable attention in recent years, as
evidenced by the growing number of research publications and industry investments. With …

A large-scale mixed-methods analysis of blind and low-vision research in ACM and IEEE

YJ Thoo, M Jeanneret Medina, JE Froehlich… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technologies for blind and low-vision (BLV) people have long been a focus of Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI) and accessibility (ASSETS) research. To map and assess this …

Augmenting people, places & media: The societal harms posed by everyday augmented reality, and the case for perceptual human rights

J O'Hagan, J Gugenheimer, J Bonner, F Mathis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Everyday Augmented Reality (AR) displays, with wearable, fashionable, all-day form factors,
may one day supplant our reliance on physical displays, heralding new capabilities in …

Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness

M Beyeler, M Sanchez-Garcia - Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. How can we return a functional form of sight to people who are living with
incurable blindness? Despite recent advances in the development of visual …

Using augmented reality to cue obstacles for people with low vision

DR Fox, A Ahmadzada, CT Wang, S Azenkot… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Detecting and avoiding obstacles while navigating can pose a challenge for people with low
vision, but augmented reality (AR) has the potential to assist by enhancing obstacle visibility …

Wearable obstacle avoidance electronic travel aids for blind and visually impaired individuals: A systematic review

P Xu, GA Kennedy, FY Zhao, WJ Zhang… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background Wearable obstacle avoidance electronic travel aids (ETAs) have been
developed to assist the safe displacement of blind and visually impaired individuals (BVIs) in …

Understanding Curators' Practices and Challenge of Making Exhibitions More Accessible for People with Visual Impairments

Y Huang, J Zhang, X Jin, M Fan - Proceedings of the 25th International …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Assistive technologies are increasingly developed and applied in exhibition environments to
help blind and low vision (BLV) people deal with the challenges they face when visiting …

Augmented reality in ophthalmology: applications and challenges

T Li, C Li, X Zhang, W Liang, Y Chen, Y Ye… - Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Augmented reality (AR) has been developed rapidly and implemented in many fields such
as medicine, maintenance, and cultural heritage. Unlike other specialties, ophthalmology …

A systematic review of extended reality (XR) for understanding and augmenting vision loss

J Kasowski, BA Johnson, R Neydavood… - Journal of …, 2023 - jov.arvojournals.org
Over the past decade, extended reality (XR) has emerged as an assistive technology not
only to augment residual vision of people losing their sight but also to study the rudimentary …

Are wearable electronic vision enhancement systems (wEVES) beneficial for people with age‐related macular degeneration? A scoping review

A Miller, MD Crossland… - Ophthalmic and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of
irreversible visual impairment in the United Kingdom. It has a wide‐ranging detrimental …