Chieko Asakawa
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- PhD Engineering University of Tokyo
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Chieko Asakawa is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility. A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. She is the recipient of numerous industry and government awards.
Chieko Asakawa's Published Works
Published Works
- Elderly User Evaluation of Mobile Touchscreen Interactions (2011) (239)
- NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind (2016) (194)
- User interface of a Home Page Reader (1998) (146)
- Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind (2004) (138)
- NavCog3: An Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in a Large-Scale Environment (2017) (119)
- Analysis of navigability of Web applications for improving blind usability (2007) (116)
- Social accessibility: achieving accessibility through collaborative metadata authoring (2008) (114)
- Annotation-based transcoding for nonvisual web access (2000) (111)
- Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible (2002) (104)
- Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Building Sequential Representations of the Real-World (2017) (85)
- People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges (2017) (85)
- BBeep: A Sonic Collision Avoidance System for Blind Travellers and Nearby Pedestrians (2019) (80)
- CaBot: Designing and Evaluating an Autonomous Navigation Robot for Blind People (2019) (76)
- VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World (2016) (74)
- Maximum listening speeds for the blind (2003) (70)
- Smartphone-based Indoor Localization for Blind Navigation across Building Complexes (2018) (64)
- Characteristics of Elderly User Behavior on Mobile Multi-touch Devices (2013) (60)
- What's the web like if you can't see it? (2005) (59)
- Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments (2017) (59)
- Airport Accessibility and Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments (2019) (55)
- NavCog: turn-by-turn smartphone navigation assistant for people with visual impairments or blindness (2016) (55)
- Aibrowser for multimedia: introducing multimedia content accessibility for visually impaired users (2007) (54)
- Transcoding proxy for nonvisual web access (2000) (52)
- Proposing new metrics to evaluate web usability for the blind (2005) (51)
- Collaborative web accessibility improvement: challenges and possibilities (2009) (51)
- Supporting Orientation of People with Visual Impairment: Analysis of Large Scale Usage Data (2016) (46)
- Environmental Factors in Indoor Navigation Based on Real-World Trajectories of Blind Users (2018) (45)
- Smartphone-based localization for blind navigation in building-scale indoor environments (2019) (44)
- Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) (2010) (40)
- An interactive method for accessing tables in HTML (1998) (40)
- Auditory and tactile interfaces for representing the visual effects on the web (2002) (39)
- Accessible photo album: enhancing the photo sharing experience for people with visual impairment (2013) (36)
- Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation (2018) (35)
- Accessibility commons: a metadata infrastructure for web accessibility (2008) (35)
- Virtual navigation for blind people: Transferring route knowledge to the real-World (2020) (34)
- How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People (2018) (33)
- Are synthesized video descriptions acceptable? (2010) (29)
- ReCog: Supporting Blind People in Recognizing Personal Objects (2020) (29)
- The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments (2018) (29)
- NavCog3 in the Wild (2019) (26)
- Making multimedia content accessible for screen reader users (2007) (26)
- Pedestrian Detection with Wearable Cameras for the Blind: A Two-way Perspective (2020) (26)
- Age-Based Task Specialization for Crowdsourced Proofreading (2013) (25)
- Turn Right: Analysis of Rotation Errors in Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Individuals with Visual Impairments (2018) (25)
- Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data (2018) (24)
- Impact of Expertise on Interaction Preferences for Navigation Assistance of Visually Impaired Individuals (2019) (24)
- Personalized Dynamics Models for Adaptive Assistive Navigation Systems (2018) (23)
- How voice augmentation supports elderly web users (2011) (23)
- Sasayaki: augmented voice web browsing experience (2011) (23)
- Modeling Expertise in Assistive Navigation Interfaces for Blind People (2018) (22)
- Recognizing hand-object interactions in wearable camera videos (2015) (22)
- Exploring Interface Design for Independent Navigation by People with Visual Impairments (2015) (21)
- An Independent and Interactive Museum Experience for Blind People (2019) (21)
- Assessment of Semantic Taxonomies for Blind Indoor Navigation Based on a Shopping Center Use Case (2017) (20)
- Exploratory Analysis of Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement (2010) (20)
- Providing synthesized audio description for online videos (2009) (20)
- New challenges in web accessibility (2015) (19)
- Variability in Reactions to Instructional Guidance during Smartphone-Based Assisted Navigation of Blind Users (2018) (18)
- Guiding Blind Pedestrians in Public Spaces by Understanding Walking Behavior of Nearby Pedestrians (2020) (18)
- Beacon-Guided Structure from Motion for Smartphone-Based Navigation (2017) (17)
- Web accessibility technology at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (2004) (16)
- LineChaser: A Smartphone-Based Navigation System for Blind People to Stand in Lines (2021) (15)
- On the audio representation of radial direction (2011) (14)
- Accessibility Evaluation for Multimedia Content (2007) (14)
- User interface of a nonvisual table navigation method (1999) (14)
- BBeep (2019) (14)
- BlindPilot: A Robotic Local Navigation System that Leads Blind People to a Landmark Object (2020) (14)
- Sasayaki: an augmented voice-based web browsing experience (2010) (13)
- Analyzing visual layout for a non-visual presentation-document interface (2006) (11)
- Question-Answer Cards for an Inclusive Micro-tasking Framework for the Elderly (2013) (11)
- Automatic accessibility transcoding for flash content (2007) (10)
- TAJODA: Proposed Tactile and Jog Dial Interface for the Blind (2004) (10)
- How Unfamiliar Words in Smartphone Manuals Affect Senior Citizens (2013) (9)
- What's Next? A Visual Editor for Correcting Reading Order (2009) (9)
- Social accessibility: the challenge of improving web accessibility through collaboration (2010) (9)
- Screen Readers (2009) (9)
- Inference Machines for supervised Bluetooth localization (2017) (8)
- Deep Learning Compensation of Rotation Errors During Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness (2019) (7)
- LuzDeploy: A Collective Action System for Installing Navigation Infrastructure for Blind People (2017) (7)
- Transforming flash to XML for accessibility evaluations (2006) (7)
- Lessons Learned from Crowd Accessibility Services (2013) (7)
- Accessibility commons (2009) (7)
- Smartphone-Based Assistance for Blind People to Stand in Lines (2020) (6)
- Deep Radio-Visual Localization (2018) (6)
- Hacking Blind Navigation (2019) (5)
- Corridor-Walker: Mobile Indoor Walking Assistance for Blind People to Avoid Obstacles and Recognize Intersections (2022) (5)
- Making Multimedia Internet Content Accessible and Usable (2007) (5)
- Enabling the Visually Disabled to Use the WWW in a GUI Environment (1996) (4)
- WebDigest: layout-preserving visually enhanced Web pages (2003) (4)
- A-EXP4: Online Social Policy Learning for Adaptive Robot-Pedestrian Interaction (2019) (3)
- Accessibility evaluation based on machine learning technique (2006) (3)
- Page-Customization allowing blind users to improve web accessibility by themselves (2001) (2)
- Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind (2021) (2)
- Personalized Dynamics Models for Adaptive Assistive Navigation Interfaces (2018) (2)
- How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings (2022) (2)
- NavCog3: Large-Scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in the Wild (2019) (2)
- BentoMuseum: 3D and Layered Interactive Museum Map for Blind Visitors (2022) (1)
- A non-visual user interface using speech recognition and synthesis (1999) (1)
- Document reader for the blind (2001) (1)
- Can a blind person understand your world? (2014) (1)
- Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, W4A 2009, Madrid, Spain, April 20-21, 2009 (2009) (1)
- CHAPTER 16 – Text Entry for People with Visual Impairments (2007) (0)
- One-dimensional user interface for retrieving information from the web for the blind (2001) (0)
- Interaction Techniques with a Navigation Robot for the Visually Impaired (2023) (0)
- Session details: Posters and system demonstrations (2008) (0)
- The Web Accessibility for the Visually Impaired People (2000) (0)
- Towards Understanding Interaction of Visually Impaired Navigators with Surrounding Pedestrians (2019) (0)
- Layout Group Extraction from Web Content for Effective Adaptation (2002) (0)
- Social Accessibility: A collaborative approach to improving Web accessibility (2010) (0)
- Diversity Ignites Innovation (2017) (0)
- User interface of a document-processing reader for the blind (1996) (0)
- Deep Learning and Geometry-based Image Localization Enhanced by Bluetooth Signals (2018) (0)
- New challenges in web accessibility (2015) (0)
- Process unit, and computer program for imaging a moving direction by sounds (2011) (0)
- A Method to add meta-information to presentation documents for recognizing the structure of the documents (2005) (0)
- Evaluation of Web Digesting Technique (2002) (0)
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