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Everyday Life Challenges and Augmented Realities: Exploring Use Cases For, and User Perspectives on, an Augmented Everyday Life
Journal
AHs 2024
ISBN
979-8-4007-0980-7/24/04
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2024-04
Author(s)
Research Team
Human-computer Interaction (HCI)
Abstract
Assistive technologies hold promise in empowering blind and low vision (BLV) people, assisting them in navigating the daily challenges they face. However, there remains limited understanding of the natu-ralistic everyday challenges experienced by BLV people, as well as how assistive technologies are specif-ically employed to effectively address these challenges. In this work, we use cultural probes to enhance our understanding of the challenges faced by BLV people and provide a corpus of insights into their eve-ryday life. We asked 10 BLV people to video record their naturalistic everyday life challenges for the du-ration of one week. These video probes, along with a set of semi-structured interviews, offer important empirical insights into the daily challenges. Despite the availability of assistive technologies and human support, where a BLV person receives assistance from another person, we observed a constant level of uncertainty where the probes revealed that BLV people often question an object's current state, such as the cleanliness of their clothing or the mix-ratio of multiple ingredients when preparing a meal. Fur-thermore, participants reported to experience significant delays in identifying critical observations, which leads to the situation where interventions may be too late to be effective (e.g., when a plant has a disease). By using video probes to provide insights into the daily challenges of BLV people, our corpus of naturalistic everyday life challenges offers a characterization of daily challenges faced by BLV people and informs future research efforts to co-design, co-develop, and co-evaluate novel assistive technologies that meet BLV people's preferences and their individual daily experiences.
Project(s)
International Postdoctoral Fellowships (IPF)
Language
English
Keywords
Assistive Mixed Reality
Everyday AR
Augmenting Humans
Book title
The Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs 2024)
Publisher
ACM
Event Title
The Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs 2024)
Event Location
Melbourne, Australia
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Contact Email Address
florian.mathis@unisg.ch