Background Health care and well-being are 2 main interconnected application areas of
conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, and …

In a world where diversity is increasingly recognised and celebrated, it is important for HCI to
embrace the evolving methods and theories for technologies to reflect the diversity of its …

Content creators are instructed to write textual descriptions of visual content to make it
accessible; yet existing guidelines lack specifics on how to write about people's appearance …

Visual arts play an important role in cultural life and provide access to social heritage and
self-enrichment, but most visual arts are inaccessible to blind people. Researchers have …

" Scene description" applications that describe visual content in a photo are useful daily
tools for blind and low vision (BLV) people. Researchers have studied their use, but they …

As social VR applications grow in popularity, blind and low vision users encounter continued
accessibility barriers. Yet social VR, which enables multiple people to engage in the same …

Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and
visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in …

Automated live visual descriptions can aid blind people in understanding their surroundings
with autonomy and independence. However, providing descriptions that are rich, contextual …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for
people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime …

Remote sighted assistance (RSA) offers prosthetic support to people with visual impairments
(PVI) through image-or video-based conversations with remote sighted assistants. While …