Crowdsourcing subjective fashion advice using vizwiz: Challenges and opportunities

ASSETS'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 135-142

  Burton, Michele A ^a   Brady, Erin ^b   Brewer, Robin ^a   Neylan, Callie ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^b   Hurst, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind Users; Crowdsourcing; Fashion

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY BARRIERS; BLIND USERS; CROWDSOURCING; DIARY STUDY; FASHION; MOBILE PHONE APPLICATIONS; ONLINE SURVEYS; PILOT STUDIES; REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT; VISION IMPAIRMENTS; VISUAL ABILITIES;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84869825408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2384916.2384941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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