Title

Vizwiz: Nearly Real-Time Answers To Visual Questions

Keywords

blind users; collaborative accessibility

Abstract

Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to decide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match and how long until the milk expires. Individually, the inability to interpret such visual information is a nuisance for blind people who often have effective, if inefficient, work-arounds to overcome them. Collectively, however, they can make blind people less independent. Specialized technology addresses some problems in this space, but automatic approaches cannot yet answer the vast majority of visual questions that blind people may have. VizWiz addresses this shortcoming by using the Internet connections and cameras on existing smartphones to connect blind people and their questions to remote paid workers' answers. VizWiz is designed to have low latency and low cost, making it both competitive with expensive automatic solutions and much more versatile. © 2010 ACM.

Publication Date

7-16-2010

Publication Title

W4A 2010 - International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility Raleigh 2010

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/1805986.1806020

Socpus ID

77954479746 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77954479746

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