TY - GEN
T1 - Towards enabling blind people to independently write on printed forms
AU - Feiz, Shirin
AU - Billah, Syed Masum
AU - Ashok, Vikas
AU - Shilkrot, Roy
AU - Ramakrishnan, I. V.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback that helped shape this paper. Hae-Na Lee contributed to the teaser figure, and Abhijeet Gul-hane and Sushma Indluru helped in Form annotation. This research was supported in part by NSF: 1806076, NEI/NIH: R01EY02662, and NIDILRR: 90IF0117-01-00.
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PY - 2019/5/2
Y1 - 2019/5/2
N2 - Filling out printed forms (e.g., checks) independently is currently impossible for blind people, since they cannot pinpoint the locations of the form fields, and quite often, they cannot even figure out what fields (e.g., name) are present in the form. Hence, they always depend on sighted people to write on their behalf, and help them affix their signatures. Extant assistive technologies have exclusively focused on reading, with no support for writing. In this paper, we introduce WiYG, a Write-it-Yourself guide that directs a blind user to the different form fields, so that she can independently fill out these fields without seeking assistance from a sighted person. Specifically, WiYG uses a pocket-sized custom 3D printed smartphone attachment, and well-established computer vision algorithms to dynamically generate audio instructions that guide the user to the different form fields. A user study with 13 blind participants showed that with WiYG, users could correctly fill out the form fields at the right locations with an accuracy as high as 89.5%.
AB - Filling out printed forms (e.g., checks) independently is currently impossible for blind people, since they cannot pinpoint the locations of the form fields, and quite often, they cannot even figure out what fields (e.g., name) are present in the form. Hence, they always depend on sighted people to write on their behalf, and help them affix their signatures. Extant assistive technologies have exclusively focused on reading, with no support for writing. In this paper, we introduce WiYG, a Write-it-Yourself guide that directs a blind user to the different form fields, so that she can independently fill out these fields without seeking assistance from a sighted person. Specifically, WiYG uses a pocket-sized custom 3D printed smartphone attachment, and well-established computer vision algorithms to dynamically generate audio instructions that guide the user to the different form fields. A user study with 13 blind participants showed that with WiYG, users could correctly fill out the form fields at the right locations with an accuracy as high as 89.5%.
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U2 - 10.1145/3290605.3300530
DO - 10.1145/3290605.3300530
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067609470
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -