iCare - a user centric approach to the development of assistive devices for the blind and visually impaired
iCare - a user centric approach to the development of assistive devices for the blind and visually impaired
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iCare - 以用户为中心的方法，为盲人和视障人士开发辅助设备
DOI：
10.1109/tai.2003.1250252
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2003
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通讯作者：
Vivek Iyer
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作者：
S. Panchanathan;J.A. Black;Mike Rush;Vivek Iyer
美国约有1000万盲人和视力受损者。随着信息经济占工作的比例越来越大，盲人在竞争需要视力来获取、吸收和使用信息的工作时面临障碍。虽然许多研究工作已经花费在为盲人开发辅助设备上，但提出的许多技术解决方案是不可行的。这些辅助设备中有许多不能满足使用者的需要，有时甚至产生比它们解决的问题更多的问题。为了避免重复这些错误，以用户为中心的方法对辅助设备的设计至关重要。本文介绍了我们自己的努力，开发和采用这样的设计方法在iCare项目。在这个项目中，研究工作的重点是那些对用户日常生活影响最大的问题，以及技术上可行的问题。
There are approximately 10 million blind and visually-impaired persons in the United States. As the information economy accounts for a larger percent of jobs, people who are blind face barriers when competing for jobs that require vision to access, absorb, and use information. While much research effort has been expended toward developing assistive devices for the blind, many of the technological solutions proposed are unworkable. Many of these assistive devices fall short of meeting the needs of users, and sometimes even create more problems than they solve. In order to avoid repeating these mistakes, a user-centric approach is vital to the design of assistive devices. This paper describes our own efforts to develop and employ such a design methodology in the iCare project. In this project, the research efforts are being focused on those problems that will have the greatest impact on the day-to-day life of the user, and that are technologically feasible.