Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Pedestrian Detection with Wearable Cameras for the Blind: A Two-way Perspective

  Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri, Chieko Asakawa (2020) — Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  Wearable cameras — embedded in commercial products like OrCam, Aira, and eSight — promise blind users equitable access to visual information about the people around them: who is approaching, where they are looking, whether eye contact is possible. Bu…

  • wearable camera
  • pedestrian detection
  • social acceptance
  • face recognition
  • privacy
  • visual impairment
  • assistive technology
  • smart glasses
  • bystander privacy
  • crowdsourcing

• Shared Privacy Concerns of the Visually Impaired and Sighted Bystanders with Camera-Based Assistive Technologies

  Taslima Akter, Tousif Ahmed, Apu Kapadia, Manohar Swaminathan (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates the privacy and ethical concerns surrounding camera-based assistive technologies (like smart glasses) from two perspectives: people with visual impairments (PVIs) as technology wearers and sighted people as bystanders who migh…

  • privacy
  • visual impairment
  • camera-based assistive technology
  • AI ethics
  • algorithmic bias
  • smart glasses
  • augmented reality
  • bystander privacy
  • facial recognition