Beyond Fairness in Computer Vision: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Harms and Fostering Community-Rooted Computer Vision Research

T Gebru, R Denton - … and Trends® in Computer Graphics and …, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
The field of computer vision is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, with its use in
surveillance applications driving this large market share. In the last six years, computer …

" I look at it as the king of knowledge": How Blind People Use and Understand Generative AI Tools

R Adnin, M Das - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools has brought a critical shift
in how people approach information retrieval and content creation in diverse contexts. Yet …

Prompting considered harmful

MR Morris - Communications of the ACM, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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Musical Performances in Virtual Reality with Spatial and View-Dependent Audio Descriptions for Blind and Low-Vision Users

K Dang, S Lee - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Virtual reality (VR), inherently reliant on spatial interaction, poses significant accessibility
barriers for individuals who are blind or have low vision (BLV). Traditional audio descriptions …

Towards Accessible Musical Performances in Virtual Reality: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Omnidirectional Audio Descriptions

K Dang, G Burke, H Korreshi, S Lee - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Our research focuses on making musical performance experience in virtual reality (VR)
settings non-visually accessible for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) individuals by designing a …

SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury

Y Hu, H Lim, L Kakonge, JT Mitchell… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause a range of cognitive and communication challenges
that negatively affect social participation in both face-to-face interactions and computer …

Painting with Cameras and Drawing with Text: AI Use in Accessible Creativity

CL Bennett, R Shelby, N Rostamzadeh… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Generative AI (GAI) is proliferating, and among its many applications are to support creative
work (eg, generating text, images, music) and to enhance accessibility (eg, captions of …

Provocation: Who benefits from" inclusion" in Generative AI?

S Dalal, SM Hall, N Johnson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09102, 2024 - arxiv.org
The demands for accurate and representative generative AI systems means there is an
increased demand on participatory evaluation structures. While these participatory …

Images Speak Volumes: User-Centric Assessment of Image Generation for Accessible Communication

M Anschütz, T Sylaj, G Groh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03430, 2024 - arxiv.org
Explanatory images play a pivotal role in accessible and easy-to-read (E2R) texts. However,
the images available in online databases are not tailored toward the respective texts, and …

Reference-Based Metrics Are Biased Against Blind and Low-Vision Users' Image Description Preferences

R Kapur, E Kreiss - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Image description generation models are sophisticated Vision-Language Models which
promise to make visual content, such as images, non-visually accessible through linguistic …