3 papers
cs.HC2026
Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users
Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati, Yang Trista Cao, Yuehan Qiao +2
Prompting and steering techniques are well established in general-purpose generative AI, yet assistive visual question answering (VQA) tools for blind users still follow rigid inte…
cs.CV2025
Text to Blind Motion
Hee Jae Kim, Kathakoli Sengupta, Masaki Kuribayashi +2
People who are blind perceive the world differently than those who are sighted, which can result in distinct motion characteristics. For instance, when crossing at an intersection,…
cs.HC2025
Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People
Rie Kamikubo, Seita Kayukawa, Yuka Kaniwa +4
Autonomous navigation robots can increase the independence of blind people but often limit user control, following what is called in Japanese an "omakase" approach where decisions…