Accessible Shopping Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals: Design Requirements and the State of the Art

Kulyukin, Vladimir; Kutiyanawala, Aliasgar

doi:10.2174/1874943701003010158

Cited by 48 publications

(24 citation statements)

References 27 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Researchers at Utah State University offer a comprehensive analysis of design requirements for mobile assistive technologies to assist visually-impaired shoppers and identify the main activities underpinning conventional shopping behavior as product selection and browsing before purchasing, navigating within a store, and searching for and identifying actual products 55 . On the basis of their analysis, they developed ShopTalk 74 to assist visuallyimpaired shoppers to navigate through a store and locate target products by scanning barcodes both on shelves and on individual products.…”

Section: Independent Shoppingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Hakobyan

Lumsden

O’Sullivan

et al. 2013

Survey of Ophthalmology

194

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractThere are around 285 million visually-impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000 people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK A . On-going advances in information technology (IT) are increasing the scope for IT-based mobile assistive technologies to facilitate the independence, safety, and improved quality of life of the visually impaired. Research is being directed at making mobile phones and other handheld devices accessible via our haptic (touch) and audio sensory channels. We review research and innovation within the field of mobile assistive technology for the visually impaired and, in so doing, highlight the need for successful collaboration between clinical expertise, computer science, and domain users to realize fully the potential benefits of such technologies. We initially reflect on research which has been conducted to make mobile phones more accessible to people with vision loss. We then discuss innovative assistive applications designed for the visually impaired that are either delivered via mainstream devices and can be used while in motion (e.g., mobile phones) or are embedded within an environment that may be in motion (e.g., public transport) or within which the user may be in motion (e.g., smart homes).

show abstract

Section: Independent Shoppingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Hakobyan

Lumsden

O’Sullivan

et al. 2013

Survey of Ophthalmology

194

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Thus, speech may become a viable option for controlling eyes-free information browsing. One caveat, however, is that, even if speech recognition becomes completely accurate, some people may still have privacy reservations of speaking commands to the system in public spaces [12].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency or Quality of Experience: A Laboratory Study of Three Eyes- Free Touchscreen Menu Browsing User Interfaces for Mobile Phones

Kulyukin¹

2011

TOREHJ

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A growing number of individuals who are blind or visually impaired is using smartphones in their daily activities. The touchscreen is a standard component of smartphones. While benefitting people with low vision by enhancing control of the text style and color and the size of images and text, the touchscreen has the downside for visually impaired users in that physical buttons for input of command selection and text entry are replaced with the touchscreen's soft buttons. To overcome this limitation, we are investigating eyes-free approaches to using the smartphone's touchscreen for information browsing. In this article, we present a laboratory study of three eyes-free touchscreen user interfaces for browsing menu hierarchies. Our findings indicate that quality of experience and familiarity may be as important as the time efficiency of completing tasks.

show abstract

“…r Several systems for shopping are available to assist VI people; however, blind buyers show less interest to buy those devices in addition to the devices that they are already familiar with (Kulyukin & Kutiyanawala, 2010 r Cooperation between teachers and students is important to suit the individual neeeds of a VI student when using e-accessibility (Carrière, 2012).…”

Section: E-accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, radios, voice recorders, CDs and talking books are less costly solutions for e-accessibility (Bonnah, Nkansah, & Unwin, 2010). Kulyukin and Kutiyanawala (2010) found that even though some devices assist VI people in relation to instore navigation and product shopping, none of these meet all requirements. Further, VI people are less interested in buying newer technology to replace devices they are already using.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review of the Application of Information Communication Technology for Visually Impaired People

Ashraf

Hasan²,

Lewis

et al. 2016

Int. J. Disabil. Manag.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

T echnological advancement in general is providing better and cheaper solutions to assist the visually impaired (VI) community. Although information communication technology (ICT) has great potential to support the inclusion of VI people in educational, social and workforce settings, there are far fewer ICT projects for VI people compared to other projects. This systematic literature review provides our findings on the existing state of ICT projects and describes outstanding issues in ICT support of VI people. Based on our findings, we suggest increased collaboration among healthcare professionals, caregivers, programmers, engineers, as well as policy makers; and adoption of policies in future ICT projects for VI people. A wide search of seven journal databases found a relevant cross-section of articles that were published between 2010 and 2015. Software Zotero Standalone and EndNote were used to screen and maintain metadata. After the initial screening of 6993 titles, 683 abstracts were scrutinised, from which 55 full text articles were selected for final review. We analysed and synthesised 37 articles. Our findings show the progress, awareness, interest, and issues in ICT integration to improve the quality of life for VI people. Three emergent topics for VI people are (a) assistive technology, (b) e-accessibility, and (c) virtual interfaces. Our findings suggest that ICT-aided applications can bring positive changes for VI people. We advance several issues that should be addressed and further developed, collaboratively, to spread awareness and invoke new policies aimed to improve the quality of life of VI people. Keywords: information communication technology (ICT), visually impaired (VI) people, systematic literature review, thematic analysisAccording to the most recent survey by the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of visually impaired (VI) people in the world is 285 million, where approximately 39 million people are blind (Mariotti, 2012). Visual impairment includes both low vision and blindness (WHO, 2007). The majority of people with visual impairment (about 90%) live in developing countries and about 65% are aged 50 or above (Mothiravally, Ang, Baloch, Kulampallil, & Geetha, 2014). Only 14% to 20% of people in developed countries suffer from disabilities in general, and these people have greater opportunities to take advantage of ICT-aided tools (Hogan, Kyaw-Myint, Harris, & Denronden, 2012). Numerous studies have been conducted focusing on people with disabilities from a sociological point of view. McAnaney and Williams (2010) suggest using action research methods for disability management. Hogan et al. (2012) contend that people with disabilities face significant inequity of remuneration, globally, due to the perception of a lack of skills and employment accommodations for particular roles. Niehaus and Marfels (2010) identify the key competencies of disabled people by using factor analysis and investigate the scope of their integration into the workforce and mainstream society. However, ther...

show abstract

Accessible Shopping Systems for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals: Design Requirements and the State of the Art

Cited by 48 publications

References 27 publications

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Efficiency or Quality of Experience: A Laboratory Study of Three Eyes- Free Touchscreen Menu Browsing User Interfaces for Mobile Phones

A Systematic Literature Review of the Application of Information Communication Technology for Visually Impaired People

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About