A survey was conducted on the use of ICT by visually impaired people. Among 304 respondents, 81 used smartphones and 44, tablets. Blind people used feature phones at a higher rate and smartphones and tablets at lower rates than people with low vision. The most popular smartphone model was iPhone and the most popular tablet model was iPad. While almost all blind users used the speech output acce...

Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) proposes that pro-arguments (pros) constitute high-level construals and counter-arguments (cons) low-level construals. Therefore, pros are more salient for distant-future actions than are cons and the reverse holds for near-future actions (Eyal, Liberman, Trope, & Walther, 2004). We further predicted and results from one experiment show that ...

purpose: to determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in tehran province in 2005. methods: a population-based cross-sectional study was carried out involving all habitants living in tehran province in 2005. the study design was according to the world health organization recommendation methods and also a pilot study preformed among rural and urban areas of karaj. it was a m...

This article focuses on the rehabilitation of people with low vision, concretely on people with central or multiple loss of vision, and the use of new technological devices to assist them in their daily life by improving their ability to see in a better way the world around them, either virtual or real. This particular case refers to users with impaired vision, and the use of digital image proc...

Studies in normally sighted people suggest that scene recognition is based on global physical properties and can be accomplished by the low resolution of peripheral vision. We examine the contribution of peripheral and central vision in scene gist recognition in patients with central vision loss and age-matched controls. Twenty-one patients with neovascular age related macular degeneration (AMD...

purpose: to describe the methodology and implementation of the investigation for prevalence and causes of visual impairment in tehran province. methods: this population-based cross-sectional study was conducted on all urban and rural residents of tehran province in 2003. a stratified cluster random sampling with probability proportional to size procedure was used. first, best pinhole-corrected ...

A method and tool is presented that assists with organising people’s personal notes and other information from inside a word processor. It is usable on a small display and by people who are blind or who have low vision, as well as by others, and is also an example application of the 4DML transformation system. The basic principle is to allow the user to annotate parts of the text with labels an...