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Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game

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CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 79 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124785

Published: 22 April 2006 Publication History

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Images on the Web present a major accessibility issue for the visually impaired, mainly because the majority of them do not have proper captions. This paper addresses the problem of attaching proper explanatory text descriptions to arbitrary images on the Web. To this end, we introduce Phetch, an enjoyable computer game that collects explanatory descriptions of images. People play the game because it is fun, and as a side effect of game play we collect valuable information. Given any image from the World Wide Web, Phetch can output a correct annotation for it. The collected data can be applied towards significantly improving Web accessibility. In addition to improving accessibility, Phetch is an example of a new class of games that provide entertainment in exchange for human processing power. In essence, we solve a typical computer vision problem with HCI tools alone.

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Improving accessibility of the web with a computer game
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2006

1353 pages

ISBN:1595933727

DOI:10.1145/1124772

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Rebecca Grinter
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Thomas Rodden
University of Nottingham, UK
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Paul Aoki
Intel, USA
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Ed Cutrell
Microsoft, USA
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Robin Jeffries
Google, USA
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Gary Olson
University of Michigan, USA

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