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FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Explore Printed Text on the Go

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Shilkrot, Roy; Maes, Patricia; Huber, Jochen; Wong, Meng Ee; Nanayakkara, Suranga
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Abstract
Accessing printed text in a mobile context is a major challenge for the blind. A preliminary study with blind people reveals numerous difficulties with existing state-of-the-art technologies including problems with alignment, focus, accuracy, mobility and efficiency. In this paper, we present a finger-worn device, FingerReader, that assists blind users with reading printed text on the go. We introduce a novel computer vision algorithm for local-sequential text scanning that enables reading single lines, blocks of text or skimming the text with complementary, multimodal feedback. This system is implemented in a small finger-worn form factor, that enables a more manageable eyes-free operation with trivial setup. We offer findings from three studies performed to determine the usability of the FingerReader.
Date issued
2015-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95971
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Journal
Proceedings of the CHI 2015 Crossings
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Shilkrot, Roy, Jochen Huber, Meng Ee Wong, Pattie Maes. “FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Explore Printed Text on the Go.” CHI 2015 Crossings, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (April 18-23, 2015), Seoul, Korea.
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978-1-4503-3145-6

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