Digital drawing has historically been a significant challenge for blind individuals, with previous solutions requiring extensive imagination and technical skills. However, the Coughlan lab has been…
I will present a system based on an iPhone app developed in the Coughlan Lab . This system is a novel “Point-and-Tap” interface that enables people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) to easily…
Movement is ubiquitous in everyday life, and accounting for our physical position as we move through the world is a constant process. Over the lifespan, experience in estimating one’s position…
Unilateral amblyopia, a leading cause of childhood vision loss, demands early intervention for optimal treatment outcomes. Unfortunately, accurate screening tools specifically designed for…
Independent wayfinding is a major challenge for blind and visually impaired (BVI) travelers. I describe recent work on improvements to real-time object recognition algorithms that will be used to…
YouDescribeX (the X is for eXtra eXperimental). In this revised audio description tool for YouTube viewers can request AI described videos in addition to putting videos on the wishlist, the wishlist…
"Vision is the most important sense for guiding our interaction with the environment." In my career, I have been involved in clinical ophthalmology, in visual science and in vision rehabilitation…
We have developed a custom test to measure stereopsis at locations across the visual field to yield a “stereo map”— visual field locations that are capable of stereopsis. Our study shows that for…
We show results from our experiments with fixation to an accommodative target in neurotypicals under binocular and monocular viewing conditions while recording from both eyes. The results reveal…