Gaurav Jain

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SceneScout: Towards AI-Driven Access to Street Level Imagery for Blind Users

People who are blind or have low-vision (BLV) may hesitate to travel independently in unfamiliar environments due to uncertainty about the physical landscape. While most tools focus on in-situ navigation assistance, those supporting pre-travel assistance typically provide information about only landmarks and turn-by-t…

UIST '241st AuthorV2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) Communication Design +1

StreetNav: Leveraging Street Cameras to Support Precise Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people rely on GPS-based systems for outdoor navigation. GPS's inaccuracy, however, causes them to veer off track, run into obstacles, and struggle to reach precise destinations. While prior work has made precise navigation possible indoors via hardware installations, enabling this outdoors…

UIST '231st AuthorVisual 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 '231st AuthorAccessibility

"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…

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