Brian A Smith

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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 '24CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1

Help Supporters: Exploring the Design Space of Assistive Technologies to Support Face-to-Face Help Between Blind and Sighted Strangers

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people face many challenges when venturing into public environments, often wishing it were easier to get help from people nearby. Ironically, while many sighted individuals are willing to help, such interactions are infrequent. Asking for help is socially awkward for BLV people, and sighte…

UIST '23CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +2

Front Row: Automatically Generating Immersive Audio Representations of Tennis Broadcasts for Blind Viewers

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people face challenges watching sports due to the lack of accessibility of sports broadcasts. Currently, BLV people rely on descriptions from TV commentators, radio announcers, or their friends to understand the game. These descriptions, however, do not allow BLV viewers to visualize the act…

CSCW '23CorrespondingAccessibility

"I Want to Figure Things Out": Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

Navigation assistance systems (NASs) aim to help visually impaired people (VIPs) navigate unfamiliar environments. Most of today’s NASs support VIPs via turn-by-turn navigation, but a growing body of work highlights the importance of exploration as well. It is unclear, however, how NASs should be designed to help VIPs…

UIST '21CorrespondingAccessible 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-…

CHI '181st AuthorAccessible Gaming +1

The RAD: Making Racing Games Equivalently Accessible to People Who Are Blind

We introduce the racing auditory display (RAD), an audio-based user interface that allows players who are blind to play racing games with a similar efficiency and sense of control as sighted players can. The RAD comprises two novel sonification techniques: the sound slider for understanding a car's speed and trajector…

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