TY - GEN
T1 - Write-it-yourself with the aid of smartwatches
T2 - 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2018
AU - Billah, Syed Masum
AU - Ashok, Vikas
AU - Ramakrishnan, I. V.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback. This research is supported by NSF: IIS-1447549, NEI/NIH: R01EY02662, NIDILRR: 90IF0117-01-00.
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PY - 2018/3/5
Y1 - 2018/3/5
N2 - Working with non-digital, standard printed materials has always been a challenge for blind people, especially writing. Blind people very often depend on others to fill out printed forms, write checks, sign receipts and documents. Extant assistive technologies for working with printed material have exclusively focused on reading, with little to no support for writing. Also, these technologies employ special-purpose hardware that are usually worn on fingers, making them unsuitable for writing. In this paper, we explore the idea of using off-the-shelf smartwatches (paired with smartphones) to assist blind people in both reading and writing paper forms including checks and receipts. Towards this, we performed a Wizard-of-Oz evaluation of different smartwatch-based interfaces that provide user-customized audio-haptic feedback in real-time, to guide blind users to different form fields, narrate the field labels, and help them write straight while filling out these fields. Finally, we report the findings of this study including the technical challenges and user expectations that can potentially inform the design of Writeit-Yourself AIDS based on smartwatches.
AB - Working with non-digital, standard printed materials has always been a challenge for blind people, especially writing. Blind people very often depend on others to fill out printed forms, write checks, sign receipts and documents. Extant assistive technologies for working with printed material have exclusively focused on reading, with little to no support for writing. Also, these technologies employ special-purpose hardware that are usually worn on fingers, making them unsuitable for writing. In this paper, we explore the idea of using off-the-shelf smartwatches (paired with smartphones) to assist blind people in both reading and writing paper forms including checks and receipts. Towards this, we performed a Wizard-of-Oz evaluation of different smartwatch-based interfaces that provide user-customized audio-haptic feedback in real-time, to guide blind users to different form fields, narrate the field labels, and help them write straight while filling out these fields. Finally, we report the findings of this study including the technical challenges and user expectations that can potentially inform the design of Writeit-Yourself AIDS based on smartwatches.
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U2 - 10.1145/3172944.3173005
DO - 10.1145/3172944.3173005
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045477206
T3 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
SP - 427
EP - 431
BT - IUI 2018 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 March 2018 through 11 March 2018
ER -
