Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged VizWiz.
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Crowdsourcing Subjective Fashion Advice Using VizWiz: Challenges and Opportunities
This paper investigates the accessibility barriers that fashion and clothing present to people with vision impairments, and explores whether crowdsourcing through VizWiz can provide useful subjective fashion advice. The research is grounded in the re…
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Using Real-time Feedback to Improve Visual Question Answering
This work-in-progress paper introduces Legion:View, a system that extends the VizWiz model of crowd-powered visual question answering by adding a real-time feedback loop between blind users and crowd workers. The original VizWiz allowed blind users t…
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Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People
This paper presents the findings of a year-long large-scale study of VizWiz Social, an iPhone application that allows blind users to take a photograph, record a spoken question about it, and receive answers from crowd workers or social contacts withi…
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Answering Visual Questions with Conversational Crowd Assistants
This paper introduces Chorus:View, a system that enables blind users to get visual questions answered through continuous conversational interaction with multiple crowd workers viewing a live video stream from the user's mobile device. The system addr…
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Gauging Receptiveness to Social Microvolunteering
This paper introduces the concept of social microvolunteering — a hybrid of friendsourcing and microvolunteering where volunteers install an application that posts microtasks to their social media feeds, enabling their friends to contribute to causes…