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We propose a goal-driven web navigation as a benchmark task for evaluating an agent with abilities to understand natural language and plan on partially observed environments. In this challenging task, an agent navigates through a website,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho

The development and enhancement of methods for evaluating software accessibility is a relevant challenge in modern software engineering, as ensuring equal access to digital services is a key factor in improving their efficiency and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mykola Kuz , Ivan Yaremiy , Hanna Yaremii , Mykola Pikuliak , Ihor Lazarovych , Mykola Kozlenko , Denys Vekeryk

Independent navigation is a core aspect of maintaining social participation and individual health for vulnerable populations. While historic cities such as Edinburgh, as the capital of Scotland, often feature well-established public…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jason Pan , Ben Moews

The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overheads associated with the primary function of the Internet---routing information packets between any two computers in the world---cause concerns among Internet experts…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Marian Boguna , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Dmitri Krioukov

Assistive technologies for people with visual impairments (PVI) have made significant advancements, particularly with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and real-time sensor technologies. However, current solutions often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-08 He Zhang , Nicholas J. Falletta , Jingyi Xie , Rui Yu , Sooyeon Lee , Syed Masum Billah , John M. Carroll

Making online resources more accessible to physically challenged library users is a topic deserving informed attention from astronomy librarians. Recommendations like WCAG 2.0 standards and section 508, in the United States, have proven…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-10 Eva Isaksson

In this paper, we developed a virtual reality (VR) system that can simulate color blindness and weakness. We built an immersive 3D web view interface where participants can discuss accessibility requirements for a fitness website projects…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yi Wang , Ben Cheng , Xiao Liu , Chetan Arora , John Grundy , Thuong Hoang

Along with the rapid development of information technology, the amount of information generated at a given time far exceeds human's ability to organize, search, and manipulate without the help of automatic systems. Now a days so many tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Urmila Shrawankar , Anjali Mahajan

Navigation has been a popular area of research in both academia and industry. Combined with maps, and different localization technologies, navigation systems have become robust and more usable. By combining navigation with augmented…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Gaurav Bhorkar

Web search is among the most ubiquitous online activities, commonly used to acquire new knowledge and to satisfy learning-related objectives through informational search sessions. The importance of learning as an outcome of web search has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Ran Yu , Ujwal Gadiraju , Stefan Dietze

The aim of this paper is to introduce the idea of the Semantic Web to the Complexity community and set a basic ground for a project resulting in creation of Internet-based semantic network of Complexity-related information providers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Marko , M. A. Porter , A. Probst , C. Gershenson , A. Das

Building on progress in feature representations for image retrieval, image-based localization has seen a surge of research interest. Image-based localization has the advantage of being inexpensive and efficient, often avoiding the use of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Ajad Chhatkuli , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Our work aims to develop new assistive technologies that enable blind or low vision (BLV) people to explore and analyze data readily. At present, barriers exist for BLV people to explore and analyze data, restricting access to government,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Samuel Reinders , Munazza Zaib , Matthew Butler , Bongshin Lee , Ingrid Zukerman , Lizhen Qu , Kim Marriott

Vision plays a crucial role in comprehending the world around us. More than 85% of the external information is obtained through the vision system. It influences our mobility, cognition, information access, and interaction with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Ishwarya Sivakumar , Nishaali Meenakshisundaram , Ishwarya Ramesh , Shiloah Elizabeth D , Sunil Retmin Raj C

Tactile graphics are widely used to present maps and statistical diagrams to blind and low vision (BLV) people, with accessibility guidelines recommending their use for graphics where spatial relationships are important. Their use is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kim Marriott , Matthew Butler , Leona Holloway , Bill Jolley , Bongshin Lee , Bruce Maguire , Danielle Albers Szafir

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) to enhance their orientation and mobility skills is critical to equalizing their access to social and economic opportunities. To manage this crucial challenge, we employed a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Daeun Joyce Chung , Muya Guoji , Nina Mindel , Alexis Malkin , Fernando Albertorio , Shane Lowe , Chris McNally , Casandra Xavier , Paul Ruvolo

Carousels have become the de-facto standard user interface in online services. However, there is a lack of research in carousels, particularly examining how recommender systems may be designed differently than the traditional single-list…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Santiago de Leon-Martinez , Robert Moro , Branislav Kveton , Maria Bielikova

Usability engineering is situated in a much larger social and institutional context than is usually acknowledged by usability professionals in the way that they define their field. The definitions and processes used in the improvement of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Asad Sayeed

The auditory sense of humans is important when it comes to navigation. The importance is especially high in cases when an object of interest is visually partly or fully covered. Interactions with users of technology are mainly focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons , Zhirou Sun , Maurizio Vergari , Navid Ashrafi , Francesco Vona , Tanja Kojic

The main aim of the work presented here is to contribute to computer science advances in the multimodal usability area, in-as-much as it addresses one of the major issues relating to the generation of effective oral system messages: how to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-08-28 Suzanne Kieffer , Noëlle Carbonell