Kris Kitani

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Origami Sensei: A Mixed Reality AI-Assistant

Learning creative hands-on skills, like origami, can be difficult for beginners. Conventional instructional methods often fail to support the experiential aspect of learning with timely and personalized feedback. Despite recent advancement of AI and Extended Reality in many fields, there is a lack of research on suppo…

UIST '20CorrespondingHand Gesture Recognition +1

Back-Hand-Pose: 3D Hand Pose Estimation for a Wrist-worn Camera via Dorsum Deformation Network

The automatic recognition of how people use their hands and fingers in natural settings – without instrumenting the fngers – can be useful for many mobile computing applications. To achieve such an interface, we propose a vision-based 3D hand pose estimation framework using a wrist-worn camera. The main challenge is t…

CHI '205th+ AuthorHonorable MentionVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible

Social media platforms are integral to public and private discourse, but are becoming less accessible to people with vision impairments due to an increase in user-posted images. Some platforms (i.e. Twitter) let users add image descriptions (alternative text), but only 0.1% of images include these. To address this acc…

CHI '205th+ AuthorVibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +2

ReCog: Supporting Blind People in Recognizing Personal Objects

We present ReCog, a mobile app that enables blind users to recognize objects by training a deep network with their own photos of such objects. This functionality is useful to differentiate personal objects, which cannot be recognized with pre-trained recognizers and may lack distinguishing tactile features. To ensure…

CHI '195th+ AuthorTeleoperated Driving +1

BBeep: A Sonic Collision Avoidance System for Blind Travellers and Nearby Pedestrians

We present an assistive suitcase system, BBeep, for supporting blind people when walking through crowded environments. BBeep uses pre-emptive sound notifications to help clear a path by alerting both the user and nearby pedestrians about the potential risk of collision. BBeep triggers notifications by tracking pedestr…

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