Designing for Independence for People with Visual Impairments

Lee, Sooyeon; Reddie, Madison; Carroll, John M.

doi:10.1145/3449223

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“…Research with users with diferent sensory disabilities has found that well-functioning assistive technologies enable greater feelings of independence and self-eicacy [40,65]. However, research has also identiied bystanders' misperceptions of assistive technologies, which include beliefs that assistive technologies eliminate someone's disability, or that users with disability cannot do anything without their assistive technologies [64].…”

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Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility

Alonzo

Elliot

Dingman

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) software aims to automatically rewrite complex text to make it simpler to read. Prior research has explored the use of ATS as a reading assistance technology, identifying benefits from providing these technologies to different groups of users, including Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) adults. However, little work has investigated the interests and requirements of specific groups of potential users of this technology. Considering prior work establishing that computing professionals often need to read about new technologies in order to stay current in their profession, in this study, we investigated the reading experiences and interests of DHH individuals with work experience in the computing industry in ATS-based reading assistance tools, as well as their perspective on the social accessibility of those tools. Through a survey and two sets of interviews, we found that these users read relatively often, especially in support of their work, and were interested in tools to assist them with complicated texts; but misperceptions arising from public use of these tools may conflict with participants’ desired image in a professional context. This empirical contribution motivates further research into ATS-based reading assistance tools for these users, prioritizing which reading activities users are most interested in seeing application of this technology, and highlighting design considerations for creating ATS tools for DHH adults, including considerations for social accessibility.

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Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility

Alonzo

Elliot

Dingman

et al. 2022

ACM Trans. Access. Comput.

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“…A visually impaired researcher conducted a study on software capable of 3D modeling and 3D printing [31], reflecting an increasing demand for technology empowering direct interaction with CAD systems. Furthermore, independent creation not only fosters collaboration, democratizes creativity, and facilitates learning [32][33][34], but also underscores the importance of accessible CAD tools for boosting confidence, independence, and overall quality of life [35].…”

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Archi-TangiBlock: A Modular Block Based Tangible Media as a CAD Tool for Visually Impaired People

Lee,

Kim,

2024

IEEE Access

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Tactile maps are crucial for orientation and mobility (O&M) training for visually impaired people (VIP) to gain spatial knowledge of their surroundings. However, existing tactile maps are limited in their ability to facilitate actively generating information, modifying, and sharing by VIP individuals, making it challenging for them and O&M specialists to create and customize maps independently. To address this issue, we propose Archi-TangiBlock (ATB), an accessible computer-aided design (CAD) tool for VIP. ATB comprises a modular block-based tangible user interface that modularizes architectural landmarks, a panel for plugging in block modules, and a computer interface. Visually impaired users can use ATB to create a 3D CAD model by constructing a space with the blocks, enabling active learning. We evaluated ATB with visually impaired participants, and our results demonstrate that ATB enables visually impaired users to easily build maps, achieving a remarkably low error rate of 1.2%, and to gain an understanding of the overall spatial layout at a rate twice as fast as compared to conventional tactile maps.

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Engendering collaborative accessibility through tourism: From barriers to bridges

Tomej

Duedahl

2023

Annals of Tourism Research

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Designing for Independence for People with Visual Impairments

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility

Reading-Assistance Tools Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Professionals in the U.S.: Their Reading Experiences, Interests and Perceptions of Social Accessibility

Archi-TangiBlock: A Modular Block Based Tangible Media as a CAD Tool for Visually Impaired People

Engendering collaborative accessibility through tourism: From barriers to bridges

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