"Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun": How Visual Information about Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals
"Is Someone There? Do They Have a Gun": How Visual Information about Others Can Improve Personal Safety Management for Blind Individuals
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“有人吗？他们有枪吗”：他人的视觉信息如何改善盲人的个人安全管理
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10.1145/3132525.3132534
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2017
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A. Hurst
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S. Branham;A. Abdolrahmani;William Easley;M. Scheuerman;Erick Ronquillo;A. Hurst
几十年来，研究人员一直在研究和开发支持盲人独立导航的技术。这就产生了主要用于探测路线、地标和建筑特征的系统。然而，关于技术如何支持在周围和在场的情况下导航的研究相对较少。如果有的话，盲人导航员希望他们能获得关于他们道路上的人的哪些视觉信息？为了解决这个问题，我们调查了58名盲人和低视力者，并采访了10名盲人。我们发现我们的参与者对使用他人的视觉信息来增加他们的人身安全很感兴趣。例如，他们想知道一个路人是否持有武器，一个假定的官员是否穿着合适的制服或徽章，以及如何向执法部门描述罪犯的视觉方面。这篇论文是仅有的几篇报告之一，记录了他人带来的与人身安全相关的无障碍挑战，包括未来的辅助工具如何使残疾人能够更积极地提高他们的安全感。我们将这一新兴领域称为个人安全管理，并提出了四个广泛的子领域，值得在盲人和更广泛的残疾人社区工作的研究人员和设计师进一步探索。
For decades, researchers have investigated and developed technologies that support independent navigation for people who are blind. This has led to systems that primarily aid in detecting routes, landmarks, and building features. However, there has been relatively little inquiry regarding how technologies might support navigation around and in the presence of other people. What visual information, if any, do blind navigators wish they had about people on their path? To address this question, we surveyed 58 blind and low vision individuals and interviewed 10 blind individuals. We discovered our participants were interested in using visual information about others to increase their physical safety. For example, they wanted to know if a passerby was holding a weapon, if a presumed official had a proper uniform or badge, and how to describe visual aspects of a criminal to law enforcement. This paper presents one of the only reports documenting accessibility challenges related to physical safety posed by others, including how future assistive tools can empower individuals with disabilities to more actively increase their sense of safety. We call this emerging area Personal Safety Management and contribute a set of four broad subareas that deserve further exploration by researchers and designers working within the blind and broader disabilities communities.