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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please join us for accessibility lunch tomorrow (Thursday 11/7) in NSH 1109. This week Sooyeon Lee is visiting from Penn State and will give a talk about interactive dialog systems
for people with visual impairments. I've included more information below! As usual, there will be lunch :)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Look forward to seeing you all there!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Amy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="4" face="Georgia,serif" color="#527BBD"><span style="font-size:26.4px;background-color:white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Speaker:
Sooyeon Lee</span></b><font style="font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="3" face="Georgia,serif"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
(Ph.D. candidate)</span></b></span></font></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></b></span></font></div>
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<p><a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/~sul131/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk146689" previewremoved="true" title="Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.personal.psu.edu/~sul131/</span></a><br>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Title:
Effective and Pleasant Interactive Dialog System for People with Visual Impairments</span></b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></font></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People
with visual impairments need guidance to perform tasks and activities due to their limited vision. Especially grocery shopping is considered as a very challenging task. This is because it comprises several subtasks: navigation, object recognition, identification,
and object acquisition, each of which requires different types of guidance with different kinds of information presentation and delivery. This complexity in the need of assistance makes shopping independently difficult. My research centers on the design of
grocery shopping aids, particularly on the assistive interface that could deliver the information needed accordingly and create an interaction that could help facilitate independent shopping experiences. My research approach has two parts - ethnographic field
studies to understand the people and the shopping practice and experimental studies to investigate and evaluate the smart camera prosthetic interventions.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, "EmojiFont";" size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this talk, I will present insightful findings from the
ethnographic based research regarding the exhaustive shopping practices, collaborative shopping practices with a sighted helper, and an emerging practices of remoted sighted assistant. I then discuss prosthetics interventions for assistive guidance with five
types of feedback signaling, multimodal feedback comprising speech and haptic vibration, and conversational assistance with haptic vibration support. Finally, I will discuss my future research directions guided by the insightful findings of the previous research.
Areas of research include smart and intelligent interactive system design, assistive AI design, and the interaction between AI and humans of varying abilities.</span></font></div>
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