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Chieko Asakawa
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 137
Citations - 4219
Chieko Asakawa is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Web accessibility & Web page. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 133 publications receiving 3500 citations. Previous affiliations of Chieko Asakawa include Nuance Communications & IBM.
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Elderly user evaluation of mobile touchscreen interactions
Masatomo Kobayashi,Atsushi Hiyama,Takahiro Miura,Chieko Asakawa,Michitaka Hirose,Tohru Ifukube +5 more
TL;DR: It was found that mobile touchscreens were generally easy for the elderly to use and a week's experience generally improved their proficiency, but careful observations identified several typical problems that should be addressed in future interfaces.
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NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind
TL;DR: This work proposes a smartphone-based system that provides turn-by-turn navigation assistance based on accurate real-time localization over large spaces and shows that the system is capable of guiding visually impaired users in complex and unfamiliar environments.
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User interface of a Home Page Reader
Chieko Asakawa,Takashi Itoh +1 more
TL;DR: The difficulties that blind people face in trying to lie in society, because of the lack of accessible information resources, are discussed, and the potential of the Web as a new information resource for the blind is considered.
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Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind
TL;DR: Accessibility Designer (aDesigner) is developed, which has capabilities to visualize blind users' usability by using colors and gradations, and reports on evaluations of real Web sites using Accessibility Designer.
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Social accessibility: achieving accessibility through collaborative metadata authoring
TL;DR: This paper will first review previous approaches, and then propose the Social Accessibility approach, to drastically reduce the burden on site owners and to shorten the time to provide accessible Web content by allowing volunteers worldwide to - renovate' any webpage on the Internet.