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Addressing Physical Safety, Security, and Privacy for People with Visual Impairments

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Tousif Ahmed, Patrick Shaffer, Kay Connelly, David Crandall, and Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington

Abstract: 

People with visual impairments face a variety of obstacles in their daily lives. Recent work has identified specific physical privacy concerns of this population and explored how emerging technology, such as wearable devices, could help. In this study we investigated their physical safety and security concerns and behaviors by conducting interviews (N=19) with participants who have visual impairments in the greater San Francisco metropolitan area. Our participants' detailed accounts shed light on (1) the safety and security concerns of people with visual impairments in urban environments (such as feared and real instances of assault); (2) their behaviors for protecting physical safety (such as avoidance and mitigation strategies); and (3) refined design considerations for future assistive wearable devices that could enhance their awareness of surrounding threats.

Tousif Ahmed, Indiana University Bloomington

Patrick Shaffer, Indiana University Bloomington

Kay Connelly, Indiana University Bloomington

David Crandall, Indiana University Bloomington

Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {197293,
author = {Tousif Ahmed and Patrick Shaffer and Kay Connelly and David Crandall and Apu Kapadia},
title = {Addressing Physical Safety, Security, and Privacy for People with Visual Impairments},
booktitle = {Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016)},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-931971-31-7},
address = {Denver, CO},
pages = {341--354},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/technical-sessions/presentation/ahmed},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun,
}
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