5 papers
Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible
Jaylin Herskovitz, Jason Wu, Samuel White +4
Augmented Reality (AR) technology creates new immersive experiences in entertainment, games, education, retail, and social media. AR content is often primarily visual and it is cha…
StateLens: A Reverse Engineering Solution for Making Existing Dynamic Touchscreens Accessible
Anhong Guo, Junhan Kong, Michael Rivera +2
Blind people frequently encounter inaccessible dynamic touchscreens in their everyday lives that are difficult, frustrating, and often impossible to use independently. Touchscreens…
Blocks: Collaborative and Persistent Augmented Reality Experiences
Anhong Guo, Ilter Canberk, Hannah Murphy +2
We introduce Blocks, a mobile application that enables people to co-create AR structures that persist in the physical environment. Using Blocks, end users can collaborate synchrono…
Toward Fairness in AI for People with Disabilities: A Research Roadmap
Anhong Guo, Ece Kamar, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan +2
AI technologies have the potential to dramatically impact the lives of people with disabilities (PWD). Indeed, improving the lives of PWD is a motivator for many state-of-the-art A…
VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions from Blind People
Danna Gurari, Qing Li, Abigale J. Stangl +5
The study of algorithms to automatically answer visual questions currently is motivated by visual question answering (VQA) datasets constructed in artificial VQA settings. We propo…