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  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For developing technologies for the visually impaired to access digital information.

Overview

Chieko Asakawa is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and conducts research at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, building and construction, social psychology, and human-computer interaction.

Their research topics focus on tactile and sensory interactions, smart parking systems research, video surveillance and tracking methods, evacuation and crowd dynamics, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), human-automation interaction and safety, and persona design and applications.

Chieko Asakawa has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • "Guiding Blind Pedestrians in Public Spaces by Understanding Walking Behavior of Nearby Pedestrians" (2020), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • "Corridor-Walker: Mobile Indoor Walking Assistance for Blind People to Avoid Obstacles and Recognize Intersections" (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings" (2022), 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • "ChitChatGuide: Conversational Interaction Using Large Language Models for Assisting People with Visual Impairments to Explore a Shopping Mall" (2024), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Snap&Nav: Smartphone-based Indoor Navigation System For Blind People via Floor Map Analysis and Intersection Detection" (2024), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent co-authors include Seita Kayukawa, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, Masaki Kuribayashi, and Daisuke Sato, indicating collaborative efforts across multiple projects.

Publication venues where Chieko Asakawa's work is frequently featured include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

In 2017, Chieko Asakawa was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for developing technologies enabling visually impaired individuals to access digital information.

Best Publications

  • Elderly user evaluation of mobile touchscreen interactions

    Masatomo Kobayashi;Atsushi Hiyama;Takahiro Miura;Chieko Asakawa

  • NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind

    Dragan Ahmetovic;Cole Gleason;Chengxiong Ruan;Kris Kitani

  • User interface of a Home Page Reader

    Chieko Asakawa;Takashi Itoh

  • System and method for information access

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • NavCog3: An Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in a Large-Scale Environment

    Daisuke Sato;Uran Oh;Kakuya Naito;Hironobu Takagi

  • Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa;Kentarou Fukuda;Junji Maeda

  • Annotation-based transcoding for nonvisual web access

    Chieko Asakawa;Hironobu Takagi

  • Analysis of navigability of Web applications for improving blind usability

    Hironobu Takagi;Shin Saito;Kentarou Fukuda;Chieko Asakawa

  • Social accessibility: achieving accessibility through collaborative metadata authoring

    Hironobu Takagi;Shinya Kawanaka;Masatomo Kobayashi;Takashi Itoh

  • CaBot: Designing and Evaluating an Autonomous Navigation Robot for Blind People

    João Guerreiro;Daisuke Sato;Saki Asakawa;Huixu Dong

  • Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa;Kentarou Fukuda;Junji Maeda

  • People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges

    Hernisa Kacorri;Kris M. Kitani;Jeffrey P. Bigham;Chieko Asakawa

  • BBeep: A Sonic Collision Avoidance System for Blind Travellers and Nearby Pedestrians

    Seita Kayukawa;Keita Higuchi;João Guerreiro;Shigeo Morishima

  • Smartphone-based Indoor Localization for Blind Navigation across Building Complexes

    Masayuki Murata;Dragan Ahmetovic;Daisuke Sato;Hironobu Takagi

  • Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Building Sequential Representations of the Real-World

    João Guerreiro;Dragan Ahmetovic;Kris M. Kitani;Chieko Asakawa

  • What's the web like if you can't see it?

    Chieko Asakawa

  • VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World

    Anhong Guo;Xiang 'Anthony' Chen;Haoran Qi;Samuel White

  • System and media for simplifying web contents, and method thereof

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • Transcoding proxy for nonvisual web access

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • Maximum listening speeds for the blind

    Chieko Asakawa;Hironobu Takagi;Shuichi Ino;Tohru Ifukube

  • Airport Accessibility and Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments

    João Guerreiro;Dragan Ahmetovic;Daisuke Sato;Kris Kitani

Frequent Co-Authors

Hironobu Takagi
Hironobu Takagi IBM (United States)
Kris M. Kitani
Kris M. Kitani Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University
Masayuki Murata
Masayuki Murata Osaka University
Michitaka Hirose
Michitaka Hirose University of Tokyo
Edward Cutrell
Edward Cutrell Microsoft (United States)
Yoichi Sato
Yoichi Sato University of Tokyo

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