A Face Recognition Application for People with Visual Impairments: Understanding Use Beyond the Lab

Recognizing others is a major challenge for people with visual impairments (VIPs) and can hinder engagement in social activities. We present Accessibility Bot, a research prototype bot on Facebook Messenger, that leverages state-of-the-art computer vision and a useru0027s friendsu0027 tagged photos on Facebook to help people with visual i...More