Current Study: Effective and Pleasant Interaction Dialog Design for Assisting People with Visual Impairment (Work submitted to ACM ASSETS Conference 2019 )

Goals

• Investigating conversation and interaction occurring via conversational/social prosthetic called Aira (https://aira.io/) between a remote sighted assistant and a person with visual impairment
• Developing requirements for conversational interaction interface for people with visual impairment

Designs

• Interview Study – 15 remote sighted agents who are employees at Aira company and 8 Aira users with visual impairments

Findings

• Conversational interaction based assistance is effective and efficient for assisting people with visual impairment
• Conversation style is context dependent and non-verbal communication method is one of the elements of conversation interaction

Goals

• Investigating effectiveness of human in the loop conversation interaction combined with a haptic signaling via a wearable haptic wristband

Designs

• Designing and developing wearable haptic wristband prototype
• Designing and planning experimental study to evaluate the dialog interactive system in a real world environment

Wearable Haptic Wristband Prototype