Title
Privacy Concerns and Behaviors of People with Visual Impairments
Abstract
Various technologies have been developed to help make the world more accessible to visually impaired people, and recent advances in low-cost wearable and mobile computing are likely to drive even moreadvances. However, the unique privacy and security needs of visually impaired people remain largely unaddressed. We conducted an exploratory user study with 14 visually impaired participants to understand the techniques they currently use for protecting privacy, their remaining privacy concerns,and how new technologies may be able to help. The interviews explored privacy not only in the physical world (e.g., bystanders overhearing private conversations) and the online world (e.g., determining if a URL is legitimate), but also in the interface between the two (e.g. bystanders `shoulder-surfing' data from screens). The study revealed serious concerns that are not adequately solved by current technology, and suggested new directions for improving the privacy of this significant fraction of the population.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2702123.2702334
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
privacy,social issues,visually impaired people,wearable technology
Mobile computing,Population,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Wearable computer,Computer science,Emerging technologies,Wearable technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.94
29
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tousif Ahmed1326.26
Roberto Hoyle21035.89
Kay H. Connelly348942.61
D. Crandall42111168.58
Apu Kapadia5144983.13