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

• Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind

  Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Chieko Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This paper explores the potential and limitations of using head-worn cameras with computer vision to help blind people access proxemic signals — the spatial behaviour of nearby people that sighted individuals perceive visually, such as someone's pres…

  • blind and low vision
  • proxemics
  • wearable camera
  • smart glasses
  • pedestrian detection
  • computer vision
  • social interaction
  • social distancing
  • assistive technology