Araware is involved with organizations and faculty members from universities around the world carrying out research and software and hardware development work. Listed below are some selected publications that were a result of our collaborative efforts.
Selected Presentations of Our Work
Utilizing 3D Printing to Assist the Blind
/in R&D -- Presentation /by webadminPresented at The 2015 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS’15) Las Vegas, USA, (July 29, 2015).
A Tangible Interface-based Application for Teaching Tactual Shape Perception and Spatial Awareness Sub-Concepts to Visually Impaired Children
/in R&D -- Presentation /by webadminPresented at The 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (July 29, 2015).
Electronic Braille Blocks: A Tangible Interface-based Application for Teaching Braille Letter Recognition to Very Young Blind Children
/in R&D -- Presentation /by webadminPresented at the 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014), July 9-11, 2014, Paris, France.
A Multimodal Tablet–based Application for the Visually Impaired for Detecting and Recognizing Objects in a Home Environment
/in R&D -- Presentation /by webadminPresented at the 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014), July 9-11, 2014, Paris, France.
Computer Vision-based Object Recognition for the Visually Impaired Using Visual Tags
/in R&D -- Presentation /by webadminPresented at The 2013 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV ’13) Las Vegas, NV, USA (July 2013).
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A Skeleton-Based Deep Learning Approach for Recognizing Violent Actions in Surveillance Scenarios
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Rodrigo Louzada Campos, Hamid R. Arabnia, 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2022) – Late Breaking Posters, vol 1655, pp. 624-631. Springer, 2022.
An Assistive Application for Developing the Functional Vision and Visuomotor Skills of Children with Cortical Visual Impairment
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2019), September 16-18, 2019, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Munich, Germany. Ahram T., Karwowski W., Pickl S., Taiar R. (eds) vol 1026, pp. 773-779. Springer, Cham, 2020.
Evaluation of the Google Tango Tablet Development Kit: A Case Study of a Localization and Navigation System
/in Research & Development /by webadminRodrigo Louzada Campos, Rabia Jafri, Syed Abid Ali, Odilon Correa and Hamid R. Arabnia, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI’18), December 13-15, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 501-506, 2018.
User-Centered Design of a Depth Data Based Obstacle Detection and Avoidance System for the Visually Impaired
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri and Marwa Mahmoud Khan, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018, Volume 8, Issue 14.
Visual and Infrared Sensor Data-Based Obstacle Detection for the Visually Impaired Using the Google Project Tango Tablet Development Kit and the Unity Engine
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Rodrigo Louzada Campos, Syed Abid Ali and Hamid R. Arabnia, IEEE Access, IEEE Computer Society, 2018, Volume 6, pp. 443-454.
A Tangible User Interface-Based Application Utilizing 3D-Printed Manipulatives for Teaching Tactual Shape Perception and Spatial Awareness Sub-Concepts to Visually Impaired Children
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Asmaa Mohammed Aljuhani and Syed Abid Ali, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Elsevier, 2017, Volume 11, pp. 3-11.
A GPU-Accelerated Real-Time Contextual Awareness Application for the Visually Impaired on Google’s Project Tango Device
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2017, Volume 73, Issue 2, pp. 887-899.
Utilizing 3D Printing to Assist the Blind
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri and Syed Abid Ali, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS’15), July 27-30, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 55-61, 2015.
A Tangible Interface-based Application for Teaching Tactual Shape Perception and Spatial Awareness Sub-Concepts to Visually Impaired Children
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Asmaa Mohammed Aljuhani and Syed Abid Ali, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015), July 26-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Elsevier ScienceDirect Procedia, Volume 3, pp. 5562-5569,2015.
Computer Vision-based Object Recognition for the Visually Impaired in an Indoors Environment: a Survey
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Syed Abid Ali, Hamid R. Arabnia and Shameem Fatima. The Visual Computer, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. ISSN: 1432-2315. DOI: 10.1007/s00371-013-0886-1, Volume 30, Issue 11, pp. 1197-1222 (Published online: October 15, 2013).
Exploring the Potential of Eyewear-Based Wearable Display Devices for Use by the Visually Impaired
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri and Syed Abid Ali, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr 2014), September 2-5, Shah Alam, Malaysia, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 119-124, 2014.
Electronic Braille Blocks: A Tangible Interface-based Application for Teaching Braille Letter Recognition to Very Young Blind Children
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014), July 9-11, Paris, France, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 8548, pp. 551-558, 2014.
A Multimodal Tablet–based Application for the Visually Impaired for Detecting and Recognizing Objects in a Home Environment
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri and Syed Abid Ali. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2014), July 9-11, Paris, France, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 8547, pp. 356-359, 2014.
A GPS-based Personalized Pedestrian Route Recording Smartphone Application for the Blind
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri and Syed Abid Ali. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2014) – Posters’ Extended Abstracts, June 22-27, Crete, Greece, Springer International Publishing, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Volume 435, pp. 232-237, 2014.
Computer Vision-based Object Recognition for the Visually Impaired Using Visual Tags
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Syed Abid Ali and Hamid R. Arabnia, Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV ’13), July 22-25, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 400-406, 2013.
Face Recognition for the Visually Impaired
/in Research & Development /by webadminRabia Jafri, Syed Abid Ali and Hamid R. Arabnia. Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information and Knowledge (IKE ’13), July 22-25, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 153-159, 2013.