TY - GEN
T1 - Assistive technologies as effective mediators in interpersonal social interactions for persons with visual disability
AU - Krishna, Sreekar
AU - Panchanathan, Sethuraman
PY - 2010/8/4
Y1 - 2010/8/4
N2 - In this paper, we discuss the use of assistive technologies for enriching the social interactions of people who are blind and visually impaired with their sighted counterparts. Specifically, we describe and demonstrate two experiments with the Social Interaction Assistant for, a) providing rehabilitative feedback for reducing stereotypic body mannerisms which are known to impede social interactions, and b) provide an assistive technology for accessing facial expressions of interaction partners. We highlight the importance of these two problems in everyday social interactions of the visually disabled community. We propose novel use of wearable computing technologies (both sensing and actuating technologies) for augmenting sensory deficiencies of the user population, while ensuring that their cognitive faculties are not compromised in any manner. Computer vision, motion sensing and haptic technologies are combined in the proposed platform towards enhancing social interactions of the targeted user population.
AB - In this paper, we discuss the use of assistive technologies for enriching the social interactions of people who are blind and visually impaired with their sighted counterparts. Specifically, we describe and demonstrate two experiments with the Social Interaction Assistant for, a) providing rehabilitative feedback for reducing stereotypic body mannerisms which are known to impede social interactions, and b) provide an assistive technology for accessing facial expressions of interaction partners. We highlight the importance of these two problems in everyday social interactions of the visually disabled community. We propose novel use of wearable computing technologies (both sensing and actuating technologies) for augmenting sensory deficiencies of the user population, while ensuring that their cognitive faculties are not compromised in any manner. Computer vision, motion sensing and haptic technologies are combined in the proposed platform towards enhancing social interactions of the targeted user population.
KW - Assistive Technology
KW - Computer Vision
KW - Dyadic Interpersonal Interaction
KW - Haptic Technology
KW - Motion Sensors
KW - Social Interactions
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_47
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955064394
SN - 3642140998
SN - 9783642140990
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 316
EP - 323
BT - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 12th International Conference, ICCHP 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2010
Y2 - 14 July 2010 through 16 July 2010
ER -