Li Chun, who is in charge of cultural services for people with visual impairments at the Yunnan Provincial Library, said the library has launched digital reading promotion and training services to break down barriers and promote unrestricted reading, including classes teaching people with visual impair...
We analyze data from interviews with people with visual impairments. We first consider their movement through the perspective of humanistic (particularly phenomenological) geography. After acknowledging the limits of this approach, we turn to our actualized conception of post-phenomenological geography, ...
Canetroller: Enabling People with Visual Impairments to Navigate Virtual Reality with a Haptic and Auditory Cane Simulation Traditional virtual reality (VR) mainly focuses on visual feedback, which is not accessible for people with visual impairments. We creat...
a specialized repository that can hold all the data that people with visual impairments might need. Within a GIS for a city, for example, you might find labeled points of interest such as bus stops. You might also find information about when the bus will stop at each station. You ...
Traditional virtual reality (VR) mainly focuses on visual feedback, which is not accessible for people with visual impairments. We createdCanetroller, a haptic cane controller that simulates white cane interactions, enabling people with visual impairments to navigate a...
Hans shares the concept of Be My Eyes in aTed Talk. He explains that a person with a visual disability does not have to feel like they are a burden to family, friends, and neighbors because a volunteer is there to help. He also presents an excellent case for “micro-volunteering”, a...
likely as men age, compared to women with the same levels of vision loss. Social andcultural norms, differences in gender roles and coping styles may account for the gender difference; men are often more economically active than women in Nigeria and may feel greater impact from visual ...
People with visual impairments often have to rely on the assistance of sighted guides in airports, which prevents them from having an independent travel experience. In order to learn about their perspectives on current airport accessibility, we conducted two focus groups that discussed t...
The ActiVis project aims to deliver a mobile system that is able to guide a person with visual impairments towards a target object or area in an unknown indoor environment. For this, it uses new developments in object detection, mobile computing, action
Together, these two surveys give a broad picture of social media usage among people with visual impairments in Norway. 展开 关键词: universal design accessibility visually impaired social media social networking sites assistive technology security barriers Captcha surveys ...