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© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Blind people face many barriers using smartphones. Still, previous research has been mostly restricted to non-visual gestural interaction, paying little attention to the deeper daily challenges of blind users. To bridge this gap, we conducted a series of workshops with 42 blind participants, uncovering application challenges across all levels of expertise, most of which could only be surpassed through a support network. We propose Hint Me!, a human-powered service that allows blind users to get in-app assistance by posing questions or browsing previously answered questions on a shared knowledge-base. We evaluated the perceived usefulness and acceptance of this approach with six blind people. Participants valued the ability to learn independently and anticipated a series of usages: labeling, layout and feature descriptions, bug workarounds, and learning to accomplish tasks. Creating or browsing questions depends on aspects like privacy, knowledge of respondents and response time, revealing the benefits of a hybrid approach.
Author(s): Rodrigues A, Montague K, Nicolau H, Guerreiro J, Guerreiro T
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: ASSETS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Year of Conference: 2017
Pages: 32-36
Acceptance date: 20/10/2017
Publisher: ACM
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132555
DOI: 10.1145/3132525.3132555
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781450349260
