SCH: INT: Conversations for Vision: Human-Computer Synergies in Prosthetic Interactions

该项目将调查为视力障碍(PVI)患者提供的假体支持 基于计算机视觉的假肢和视频介导人在环假肢。计算机视觉-- 基于(CV)的假体作为解析技术之一，构成了视觉假体的基本技术挑战 以及跨比例、距离和方向识别对象。视觉假体的应用已经被 在过去的50年里，计算机视觉技术的发展起着重要的推动作用。视频媒体 远程视觉辅助(RSA)假体是较新的，由不同的技术和解释实现 视觉假体作为有效的帮助互动之一的定向技术挑战。RSA服务 现已上市，并在PVI社区引起了极大的兴奋。 这两种方法，CV和RSA，将通过一系列日益细化的 Oz模拟向导，并调查这两种方法之间可能的协同效应。我们将聘用 以人为中心的设计方法，确定一组关键的辅助交互场景，这些场景代表 通过利用我们与当地客户6年的直接合作关系，满足VIs的真实需求和关切 全国盲人联合会分会。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 2370万美国成年人失明；130万美国人合法失明。该项目针对的是 提高人的业绩和经验、使工作场所的参与多样化的转型机会，以及 --增进经济社会福祉。

The project will investigate prosthetic support for people with visual impairment (PVI) that integrates computer vision-based prosthetics with video-mediated human-in-the-loop prosthetics. Computer vision- based (CV) prosthetics construe the fundamental technical challenge for visual prosthetics as one of parsing and identifying objects across scales, distances, and orientations. Visual prosthetic applications have been central drivers in the development of computer vision technology through the past 50 years. Video-mediated remote sighted assistance (RSA) prosthetics are more recent, enabled by different technologies, and construe the orienting technical challenge for visual prosthetics as one of effective helping interactions. RSA services are commercially available now, and have evoked much excitement in the PVI community. The two approaches, CV and RSA, will be successively integrated through a series of increasingly refined Wizard of Oz simulations, and investigate possible synergies between the two approaches. We will employ a human-centered design approach, identifying a set of key assistive interaction scenarios that represent authentic needs and concerns of PVIs, by leveraging our 6-year relationship working directly with our local chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. RELEVANCE (See Instructions): 23.7 million American adults have vision loss; 1.3 million people in US are legally blind. This project addresses a transformational opportunity to enhance human performance and experience, to diversify workplace participation, and to enhance economic and social well-being.