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Home Department: RI
Office: 4523 Newell-Simon Hall
Phone: (412) 268-3118
Administrative Assistant: Christine Downey
Lab: Cognitive Assistance Laboratory
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Displaying 51 Publications

2023
Enhancing Blind Visitor’s Autonomy in a Science Museum Using an Autonomous Navigation Robot
Seita Kayukawa, Daisuke Sato, Masayuki Murata, Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 14, April, 2023
PathFinder: Designing a Map-less Navigation System for Blind People in Unfamiliar Buildings
Masaki Kuribayashi, Tatsuya Ishihara, Daisuke Sato, Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal, Karnik Ram, Seita Kayukawa, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 16, April, 2023
2022
Corridor-Walker: Mobile Indoor Walking Assistance for Blind People to Avoid Obstacles and Recognize Intersections
Masaki Kuribayashi, Seita Kayukawa, Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal, Chieko Asakawa, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, and Shigeo Morishima
Journal Article, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 6, No. MHCI, pp. 22, September, 2022
How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings
Seita Kayukawa, Daisuke Sato, Masayuki Murata, Tatsuya Ishihara, Akihiro Kosugi, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 546-553, August, 2022
2021
Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind
Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Chieko Asakawa, and Hernisa Kacorri
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21), pp. 1 - 15, October, 2021
2020
Pedestrian detection with wearable cameras for the blind: A two-way perspective
Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Recog: Supporting blind people in recognizing personal objects
Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Transferring Route Knowledge to the Real-World
Joao Guerreiro, Kris Kitani, Daisuke Sato, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Chieko Asakawa, and Dragan Ahmetovic
Journal Article, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 135, March, 2020
2019
A-EXP4: Online Social Policy Learning for Adaptive Robot-Pedestrian Interaction
Pengju Jin, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5086 - 5093, November, 2019
CaBot: Designing and Evaluating an Autonomous Navigation Robot for Blind People
João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Huixu Dong, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '19), pp. 68 - 82, October, 2019