FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Explore Printed Text on the Go

Accessing printed text in a mobile context is a major challenge for the blind. A preliminary study with blind people reveals numerous difficulties with existing state-of-the-art technologies including problems with alignment, focus, accuracy, mobility and efficiency. In this paper, we present a fing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shilkrot, Roy, Maes, Patricia, Huber, Jochen, Wong, Meng Ee, Nanayakkara, Suranga
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95971
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-4254