The objective of the study is to understand the pattern of emotional display rules of visually and hearing impaired students towards different members of the society under two different situations i.e., private and public. This is to be studied for three emotions namely, happiness, sadness and anger. The Display Rule Assessment Inventory of Matsumoto Yoo, Hirayama, and Petrova (2005) was admini...

purpose : childhood blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (rop) is an important concern, but this blindness or severe visual impairment may be prevented if at risk infants are screened before occurrence of advanced stages. in this study, we tried to find the role of parental education about rop in parents’ compliance for on-time attendance for rop screening. methods : demographic factors ...

Crowdsourcing platforms provide attractive solutions for collecting speech synthesis data for visually impaired person. However, quality control problems remain because of low-quality volunteer workers. In this paper, we propose the design of a crowdsourcing system that allows us to devise quality control methods. We introduce four worker selection methods; preprocessing filtering, real-time fi...

According to the National Center for Health Statistics approximately 1.3 million people in the United States are legally visually impaired. Two of the primary challenges that visually impaired people face every day are mobility and orientation. Less than 10% of visually impaired people use canes and approximately 5% use guide dogs. The project scope is to develop a working prototype using ultra...

In Taiwan inclusive accessibility designs and equipment for the visually exceptional (impaired) include both Braille and guidance systems. Guidance systems refer to tactile or broadcast means of affording users' accessibility. Currently though, existing equipment are only able to provide the visually exceptional (impaired) with limited environmental information. Previously, a visually exception...