Social Sensemaking with AI: Designing an Open-ended AI experience with a Blind Child

C Morrison, E Cutrell, M Grayson, A Thieme… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
AI technologies are often used to aid people in performing discrete tasks with well-defined
goals (eg, recognising faces in images). Emerging technologies that provide continuous …

A face recognition application for people with visual impairments: Understanding use beyond the lab

Y Zhao, S Wu, L Reynolds, S Azenkot - … of the 2018 CHI Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Recognizing others is a major challenge for people with visual impairments (VIPs) and can
hinder engagement in social activities. We present Accessibility Bot, a research prototype …

Progressive tree-structured prototype network for end-to-end image captioning

P Zeng, J Zhu, J Song, L Gao - … of the 30th ACM International Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Studies of image captioning are shifting towards a trend of a fully end-to-end paradigm by
leveraging powerful visual pre-trained models and transformer-based generation …

Computer vision and conflicting values: Describing people with automated alt text

M Hanley, S Barocas, K Levy, S Azenkot… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Scholars have recently drawn attention to a range of controversial issues posed by the use
of computer vision for automatically generating descriptions of people in images. Despite …

Understanding emerging obfuscation technologies in visual description services for blind and low vision people

R Alharbi, RN Brewer, S Schoenebeck - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Blind and low vision people use visual description services (VDS) to gain visual
interpretation and build access in a world that privileges sight. Despite their many benefits …

Disability-first design and creation of a dataset showing private visual information collected with people who are blind

T Sharma, A Stangl, L Zhang, YY Tseng, I Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present the design and creation of a disability-first dataset,“BIV-Priv,” which contains 728
images and 728 videos of 14 private categories captured by 26 blind participants to support …

An accurate generation of image captions for blind people using extended convolutional atom neural network

T Tiwary, RP Mahapatra - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Recently, the progress on image understanding and AIC (Automatic Image Captioning) has
attracted lots of researchers to make use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) models to assist the …

Prompt-based learning for unpaired image captioning

P Zhu, X Wang, L Zhu, Z Sun, WS Zheng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unpaired Image Captioning (UIC) has been developed to learn image descriptions from
unaligned vision-language sample pairs. Existing works usually tackle this task using …

A dataset of alt texts from HCI publications: Analyses and uses towards producing more descriptive alt texts of data visualizations in scientific papers

SS Chintalapati, J Bragg, LL Wang - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Figures in scientific publications contain important information and results, and alt text is
needed for blind and low vision readers to engage with their content. We conduct a study to …

The effect of computer-generated descriptions on photo-sharing experiences of people with visual impairments

Y Zhao, S Wu, L Reynolds, S Azenkot - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Like sighted people, visually impaired people want to share photographs on social
networking services, but find it difficult to identify and select photos from their albums. We …