Conference proceeding
Exploring the Opportunities for Technologies to Enhance Quality of Life with People who have Experienced Vision Loss
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on human factors in computing systems, pp.1-8
CHI '19
05/02/2019
DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300421
Abstract
Research predicts that 196 million people will be diagnosed with Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) by 2020. People who experience AMD and other vision loss face barriers that affect their Quality of Life (QoL). People experience only modest improvement from technologies (e.g., screen readers, CCTV), tools (e.g., magnifying glasses, tactile buttons), and human help (e.g., friends, blindness organizations). Further, there are issues to accessing these resources based on one's place of residence. To explore these challenges and determine design implications to support people who have experienced vision loss (PVL), we conducted a qualitative semi-structured interview study exploring QoL with 10 PVL. We uncovered themes of supporting creative work, recognizing the impact of one's living in a non-urban setting on QoL, and increasing efficiency at accomplishing tasks. We motivate the inclusion of PVL in the design process because they learned skills while sighted and are now low vision or blind.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Exploring the Opportunities for Technologies to Enhance Quality of Life with People who have Experienced Vision Loss
- Creators
- Rachel Bartlett - University of IowaYi Xuan Khoo - University of IowaJuan Pablo Hourcade - University of IowaKyle Rector - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on human factors in computing systems, pp.1-8
- Series
- CHI '19
- DOI
- 10.1145/3290605.3300421
- Publisher
- ACM
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/02/2019
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259461802771
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