Title
Understanding the Physical Safety, Security, and Privacy Concerns of People with Visual Impairments.
Abstract
With the help of various assistive devices, people with visual impairments are able to live their lives with greater independence both online and offline. But significant work remains to understand and address their safety, security, and privacy concerns, especially in the physical, offline world. For example, people with visual impairments are particularly vulnerable to physical assault and theft, shoulder-surfing attacks, and being overheard during private conversations. The authors conducted two sets of interviews -- one in a small-town setting and the other in a larger metropolitan area -- with 33 participants with visual impairments to identify their physical safety, security, and privacy issues and find out how they manage these concerns and how assistive technologies could help alleviate them. The resulting research proposes design considerations for camera-based devices that would help people with visual impairments monitor for potential threats around them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MIC.2017.77
IEEE Internet Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Privacy,Computer security,Visualization,Safety,Portable computers,Blindness,Usability,Assistive technology
World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Computer security,Visualization,Computer science,Usability,Online and offline,Metropolitan area,Physical assault,Blindness
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
3
1089-7801
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tousif Ahmed1326.26
Roberto Hoyle21035.89
Patrick Shaffer371.14
Kay H. Connelly448942.61
D. Crandall52111168.58
Apu Kapadia6144983.13