@inproceedings{a5b6add680e24cd18a1698d28f37a0ff,
title = "Let's get lost: Exploring social norms in predominately blind environments",
abstract = "The ability for one to navigate independently can be essential to maintaining employment, taking care of oneself, and leading a fulfilling life. However, for people who are blind, navigation-related tasks in public spaces-such as locating an empty seat-can be difficult without appropriate tools, training, or social context. We present a study of social norms in environments with predominately blind navigators and discuss how these may differ from what sighted people expect. Based on these findings, we advocate for the creation of more pervasive technologies to help bridge the gap between social norms when people with visual impairments are in predominately sighted environments.",
keywords = "Blind navigation, People with vision impairments, Social stigma",
author = "William Easley and Williams, {Michele A.} and Ali Abdolrahmani and Caroline Galbraith and Branham, {Stacy M.} and Amy Hurst and Kane, {Shaun K.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Authors.; 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016 ; Conference date: 07-05-2016 Through 12-05-2016",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2851581.2892470",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "2034--2040",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2016",
}