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Exploring the Experiences of Individuals Who are Blind or Low-Vision Using Object-Recognition Technologies in India

Gesu India, Simon Robinson Orcid Logo, Jen Pearson Orcid Logo, Cecily Morrison Orcid Logo, Matt Jones Orcid Logo

CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages: 1 - 11

Swansea University Authors: Gesu India, Simon Robinson Orcid Logo, Jen Pearson Orcid Logo, Matt Jones Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3706598.3713107

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Assistive technologies, such as smartphone-based object-recognition (OR) apps, provide visual assistance to people who are blind or low-vision to enable increased independent participation in society. While previous research has explored the functional accessibility of object-recognition technologie...

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