VizWiz: Nearly real-time answers to visual questions

UIST 2010 - 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 333-342

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Jayant, Chandrika ^e   Ji, Hanjie ^a   Little, Greg ^c   Miller, Andrew ^d   Miller, Robert C ^c   Miller, Robin ^a   Tatarowicz, Aubrey ^c   White, Brandyn ^b   White, Samuel ^a   Yeh, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind users; Non visual interfaces; Real time human computation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND USERS; ERROR PRONES; FIELD DEPLOYMENT; GENERAL APPROACH; HUMAN COMPUTATION; MULTIPLE PEOPLE; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; TEXT LABELS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL INTERFACE; VISUAL SEARCH;

DESIGN; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78649587763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866029.1866080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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