Exploiting SenseCam for Helping the Blind in Business Negotiations

Abstract

Abstract. During business meetings, blind persons are not able to see the meaningful movements, and facial gestures of the participants. The formal meeting minutes and / or participants' conversation during the meeting normally lack this important feedback in order to determine who is in favor and who is against their proposed suggestions. This is crucial in business negotiations, where one has to convince people and do lobbying for winning the business case in upcoming meetings. Today the devices already exist for instantly and seamlessly capturing the snapshots everywhere. The proposition suggests data capture using a similar device called SenseCam 1 , and then making these snapshots accessible for the benefit of the visually impaired users.

A Contextual Inquiry of People with Vision Impairments in Cooking

“…Participants noted that they would be interested in knowing the status of the kitchen even when they had moved outside of that space (Section 6.2.3). Implicit tracking systems [21,25,29] could discreetly and continuously monitor contextual information, such as the location of objects, while the user is engaged in various activities within the kitchen [37]. This approach would alleviate the need for users to consciously track objects in the kitchen at all times.…”

DeepDiary: Automatically Captioning Lifelogging Image Streams

“…While wearable cameras have been studied for over a decade in the research community [1,23,37], only recently have they become practical enough for consumers to use on a daily basis. Recent work has explored using them to aid human memory for retrospection [7,11,21,53], to help students learn [4], to assist people with visual impairments [27], and to study people's activities at a fine grain resolution for psychological studies [2,12,26], among many other applications. These wearable camera applications raise a number of challenges.…”