SelfieHelper : Improving Selfie Experiences for People with Visual Impairments
Yun-Jung Lee, Uran Oh · Journal of the HCI Society of Korea · 2020
Selfies have been a major social trend for several years, recently. However, a number of people with visual impairments are excluded due to accessibility problems although their use of social media is as high as sighted people. To improve their selfie experiences, we propose SelfieHelper, a mobile application for taking and managing selfies for people with visual impairments, and conducted a design probe study with 8 participants with visual impairments. Based on the collected subjective opinions and the potential and limitations we have discovered in this study, we discuss how a future selfie assistance application for people with visual impairments can promote independent selfie-related activities such as taking and organizing selfies with the ultimate goal of lowering the potential barriers for them to participate in online social activities.