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Art accessibility for blind people
- Source :
- IHC
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- ACM, 2019.
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Abstract
- Cultural spaces like art galleries or museums are, in general, not accessible to blind or low vision visitors. Most of them do not have haptic support or when it has, the users do not have the experience to understand adapted art. This paper proposes a process to improve accessibility to visual art by for blind people improving knowledge on the creation and interpretation of photography. Initially, a photography workshop was applied to a group of three individuals with different levels of visual impairment. In the first part, researchers explained the basic concepts of photography like composing, lighting, and camera. Then, the participants choose their subjects and captured images. After the workshop, the research team built six haptic plaster pieces. Later, a final meeting and a public exhibition took place to collect users feedback and show their final results. With this process, we provide a path to improve the autonomy of blind people on image reading, photographic production, and haptic perception, giving them tools to interpret not just their captured images, but different visual art, using their own experiences. This work can also be extended to understand the challenges of image/haptic based interfaces for people with low vision.
- Subjects :
- Process (engineering)
Computer science
Interpretation (philosophy)
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Photography
Visual impairment
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
Exhibition
Human–computer interaction
Reading (process)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
medicine.symptom
Haptic perception
050107 human factors
Haptic technology
media_common
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ca65bcdadb753b969ed901bd9428c534