Improving the Accessibility of Mobile OCR Apps Via Interactive Modalities

Author:

Cutter Michael1,Manduchi Roberto1

Affiliation:

1. University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Abstract

We describe two experiments with a system designed to facilitate the use of mobile optical character recognition (OCR) by blind people. This system, implemented as an iOS app, enables two interaction modalities (autoshot and guidance). In the first study, augmented reality fiducials were used to track a smartphone’s camera, whereas in the second study, the text area extent was detected using a dedicated text spotting and text line detection algorithm. Although the guidance modality was expected to be superior in terms of faster text access, this was shown to be true only when some conditions (involving the user interface and text detection modules) are met. Both studies also showed that our participants, after experimenting with the autoshot or guidance modality, appeared to have improved their skill at taking OCR-readable pictures even without use of such interaction modalities.

Funder

National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Science Applications,Human-Computer Interaction

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