New Opportunities for Computer Vision-Based Assistive Technology Systems for the Visually Impaired

Computing advances and increased smartphone use gives technology system designers greater flexibility in exploiting computer vision to support visually impaired users. Understanding these users' needs will certainly provide insight for the development of improved usability of computing devices.

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