Vishnu Nair

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Surveyor: Facilitating Discovery Within Video Games for Blind and Low Vision Players

Video games are increasingly accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) players, yet many aspects remain inaccessible. One aspect is the joy players feel when they explore environments and make new discoveries, which is integral to many games. Sighted players experience discovery by surveying environments and identifyin…

CHI '231st AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

ImageAssist: Tools for Enhancing Touchscreen-Based Image Exploration Systems for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blind and low vision (BLV) users often rely on alt text to understand what a digital image is showing. However, recent research has investigated how touch-based image exploration on touchscreens can supplement alt text. Touchscreen-based image exploration systems allow BLV users to deeply understand images while grant…

UIST '211st AuthorAccessible Gaming +1

NavStick: Making Video Games Blind-Accessible via the Ability to Look Around

Video games remain largely inaccessible to visually impaired people (VIPs). Today’s blind-accessible games are highly simplified renditions of what sighted players enjoy, and they do not give VIPs the same freedom to look around and explore game worlds on their own terms. In this work, we introduce NavStick, an audio-…

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