Supporting everyday activities for persons with visual impairments through computer vision-augmented touch

ASSETS 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 383-384

  Findlater, Leah ^a   Stearns, Lee ^a   Du, Ruofei ^a   Oh, Uran ^a   Ross, David ^b   Chellappa, Rama ^c   Froehlich, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Atlanta VA Rehab R and D Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind; Computer vision; Vision augmented touch; Visually impaired; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BLIND; PROOF OF CONCEPT; TACTILE INFORMATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84962652559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2700648.2811381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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