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Information seeking is an interactive behaviour of the end users with information systems, which occurs in a real environment known as context. Context affects information-seeking behaviour in many different ways. The purpose of this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Shahram Sedghi , Zeinab Shourmeij , Iman Tahamtan

Visually impaired persons have significant problems in their everyday movement. Therefore, some of our previous work involves computer vision in developing assistance systems for guiding the visually impaired in critical situations. Some of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Krešimir Romić , Irena Galić , Marija Habijan , Hrvoje Leventić

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodivergent condition with a wide range of characteristics and support levels. Individuals with ASD can exhibit various combinations of traits such as difficulties in social interaction, communication,…

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

Numerous accessibility features have been developed and included in consumer operating systems to provide people with a variety of disabilities additional ways to access computing devices. Unfortunately, many users, especially older adults…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jason Wu , Gabriel Reyes , Sam C. White , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jeffrey P. Bigham

The main backbone of our Artificial Eye model is the Raspberry pi3 which is connected to the webcam ,ultrasonic proximity sensor, speaker and we also run all our software models i.e object detection, Optical Character recognition, google…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Abhinav Benagi , Dhanyatha Narayan , Charith Rage , A Sushmitha

Recent advancements in computer vision have led to a renewed interest in developing assistive technologies for individuals with visual impairments. Although extensive research has been conducted in the field of computer vision-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Inpyo Song , Sanghyeon Lee , Minjun Joo , Jangwon Lee

Spatial perception, particularly at small and medium scales, is an essential human sense but poses a significant challenge for the blind and visually impaired (BVI). Traditional learning methods for BVI individuals are often constrained by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiaoqing Jing , Chun Yu , Kun Yue , Liangyou Lu , Nan Gao , Weinan Shi , Mingshan Zhang , Ruolin Wang , Yuanchun Shi

Equal access to digital technologies is critical for education, employment, and social participation. However, mainstream interfaces are visually oriented, creating steep learning curves and frequent obstacles for screen reader users, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nan Chen , Jing Lu , Zilong Wang , Luna K. Qiu , Siming Chen , Yuqing Yang

The multitude of data generated by sensors available on users' mobile devices, combined with advances in machine learning techniques, support context-aware services in recognizing the current situation of a user (i.e., physical context) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Franca Delmastro , Pan Hui

Data analysis in space sciences has been performed exclusively visually for years, despite the fact that the largest amount of data belongs to non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. This, on the one hand, limits the study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Johanna Casado , Beatriz García

The world is witnessing the birth of a revolutionary computing paradigm that promises to have a profound effect on the way we interact with computers, devices, physical spaces, and other people. This new technology, called ubiquitous…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen

The widespread diffusion of connected smart devices has contributed to the rapid expansion and evolution of the Internet at its edge. Personal mobile devices interact with other smart objects in their surroundings, adapting behavior based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

Traditionally, there have been few options for navigational aids for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) in large indoor spaces. Some recent indoor navigation systems allow users equipped with smartphones to interact with low cost…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Seyed Ali Cheraghi , Vinod Namboodiri , Kaushik Sinha

Aging society has been becoming a global problem not only in advanced countries. Under such circumstances, it is said that participation of elderly people in social activities is highly desirable from various perspectives including decrease…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Keisuke Umezu , Takahiro Kawamura , Akihiko Ohsuga

The rate of disability is increase day by day all over the world .There are various type of Disabilities but the deaf persons are on second number among all types of disabilities.. In most of the countries disabled persons are supposed to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Syed Asif Ali , Safeeulah Soomro , Abdul Ghafoor Memon , Mashooque Ahmed

Despite their growing popularity, many public kiosks with touchscreens are inaccessible to blind people. Toucha11y is a working prototype that allows blind users to use existing inaccessible touchscreen kiosks independently and with little…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jiasheng Li , Zeyu Yan , Arush Shah , Jonathan Lazar , Huaishu Peng

Investigating efficiently the data collected from a system's activity can help to detect malicious attempts and better understand the context behind past incident occurrences. Nowadays, several solutions can be used to monitor system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Inês Macedo , Sinan Wanous , Nuno Oliveira , Orlando Sousa , Isabel Praça

Access to textual and visual information for visually impaired persons becomes very difficult with screen readers which are not adapted to different websites.This paper analyses the use of different technologies for access digital content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Katerine Romeo , Edwige Pissaloux , Frédéric Serin

Advanced multimodal AI agents can now collaborate with users to solve challenges in the world. Yet, these emerging contextual AI systems rely on explicit communication channels between the user and system. We hypothesize that implicit…