ArticleDIS. Designing Interactive Systems (Conference)2023
Are Two Heads Better than One? Investigating Remote Sighted Assistance with Paired Volunteers.
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- Enhancing the Travel Experience for People with Visual Impairments through Multimodal Interaction: NaviGPT, A Real-Time AI-Driven Mobile Navigation System.GROUP ... : proceedings of the International ACM SIGCHI Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work · 2025Article
- Human-AI Collaboration for Remote Sighted Assistance: Perspectives from the LLM Era.Future internet · 2024Article
- BubbleCam: Engaging Privacy in Remote Sighted Assistance.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2024Article
- Beyond Visual Perception: Insights from Smartphone Interaction of Visually Impaired Users with Large Multimodal Models.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI ConferenceArticle
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Abstract
Remote Sighted Assistance (RSA) is a popular smartphone-mediated aid for people with blindness, where a sighted individual converses with a blind individual in a one-on-one (1:1) session. Since sighted assistants outnumber blind individuals (13:1), this paper investigates what happens when more than one sighted individual assists a single blind individual in a session. Specifically, we propose paired-volunteer RSA, a new paradigm where two sighted volunteers assist a single user with blindness. We investigate the feasibility, desirability, and challenges of this paradigm and explore its opportunities. Our study with 8 sighted volunteers and 9 blind users reveals that the proposed paradigm extends the one-on-one RSA to cover a broader range of more intellectual and experiential tasks, providing new and distinctive opportunities in supporting complex, open-ended tasks (e.g., pursuing hobbies, appreciating arts, and seeking entertainment). These opportunities can not only enrich the blind users' quality of life and independence but also offer a fun and engaging experience for the sighted volunteers. The study also reveals the costs of extended collaboration in this paradigm. Finally, we synthesize a taxonomy of tasks where the proposed RSA paradigm can succeed and outline how HCI researchers and system designers can realize this paradigm.
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