Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged situational disability.
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Chorus: A Crowd-Powered Conversational Assistant
This paper presents Chorus, a crowd-powered conversational assistant that enables users to hold natural, continuous conversations with what appears to be a single partner, but is actually backed by multiple crowd workers operating in real-time. The s…
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Marker-based image recognition of dynamic content for the visually impaired
This paper from IBM Research Brazil introduces a marker-based image recognition technique to help visually impaired people access information displayed on public panels and boards with fixed layouts but dynamic content — such as vending machines, spl…
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Marker-Assisted Recognition of Dynamic Content in Public Spaces
This paper from IBM Research Brazil presents an image processing system that helps visually impaired and situationally disabled people (such as tourists in foreign countries) recognize dynamic content displayed on public information boards. The syste…
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Addressing the Situational Impairments Encountered by Firefighters through the Design of Alerts
This paper describes a structured multi-step approach to designing multimodal alerts for firefighters who experience severe situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs) at fire scenes — thick smoke restricting vision, loud noise from co…