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Cole Gleason
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 20
Citations - 757
Cole Gleason is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Crowdsourcing. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications receiving 489 citations. Previous affiliations of Cole Gleason include Facebook.
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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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“It's almost like they're trying to hide it”: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible
Cole Gleason,Patrick Carrington,Cameron Tyler Cassidy,Meredith Ringel Morris,Kris M. Kitani,Jeffrey P. Bigham +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that simply making it possible to provide image descriptions is not enough, and future directions for automated tools that may support users in writing high-quality descriptions are revealed.
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Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible
Cole Gleason,Amy Pavel,Emma McCamey,Christina Low,Patrick Carrington,Kris M. Kitani,Jeffrey P. Bigham +6 more
TL;DR: Twitter A11y increases access to social media platforms for people with visual impairments by providing high-quality automatic descriptions for user-posted images by increasing alt-text coverage from 7.6% to 78.5%, before crowdsourcing descriptions for the remaining images.
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“It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability
Cynthia L. Bennett,Cole Gleason,Morgan Klaus Scheuerman,Jeffrey P. Bigham,Anhong Guo,Alexandra To +5 more
TL;DR: Interviews with screen reader users who were also Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Non-binary, and/or Transgender on their current image description practices and preferences, and experiences negotiating theirs and others’ appearances non-visually are reported on.
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Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments
Dragan Ahmetovic,Masayuki Murata,Cole Gleason,Erin Brady,Hironobu Takagi,Kris M. Kitani,Chieko Asakawa +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a graph-based localization method using Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) and particle filter is proposed to reduce the instrumentation costs while maintaining a high accuracy.