Access through InSite: A Co-design Study to Inform Automated Extended Descriptions for Museum Information Access

Abstract

Museums around the world hold vast collections of art and cultural history that are often inaccessible to blind museum visitors. One of the most difficult challenges is the lack of spatial information about gallery configuration, the exhibit objects, and the scenes portrayed within the artwork. This paper describes a co-design study conducted with museum visitors with blindness and visual impairments (BVI) to investigate characteristics of layered spatial language structures for accessible scene descriptions that will inform the development of an automated extended caption system.

Presenters

Stacy Doore
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Colby College, Maine, United States

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

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Visitors

KEYWORDS

Indoor environments, Scene descriptions, Assistive technologies, Blindness and visual impairments

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