Interviewing blind photographers: design insights for a smartphone application

Abstract

Studies showed that people with limited or no vision are taking, storing, organizing, and sharing photos, but there isn't much information of how they do these. While the process for taking photos is somewhat understood, there has been little work researching how exactly blind people are storing, organizing, and sharing their photos without sighted help. We ran interviews with 11 people with limited to no vision who have taken digital photos, and analyzed their responses. We aim to use this information to motivate features of a smartphone application that will assist people with limited vision not only with aiming the camera to capture a "good" photo, but also with locating and organizing their photos so they may retrieve their photos at a later date or share them with others, online or offline.