Do you like my outfit?

Abstract

The community of visually impaired people has been very active during the last decades with initiatives devoted to raise awareness about their specific needs in the society and encourage the adoption of any innovative assistive solutions for their personal empowerment. A contextual inquiry conducted in Europe revealed that some of the major concerns to those people refer to independence of living. According to recent studies most existing remote control home automation systems miss certain specific usability and accessibility features which could address specific blind users' needs. In the present paper we present an assistive mobile app, designed to allow autonomy of blind/visually impaired users in the everyday activity of getting dressed. The user testing activities conducted so far are described and the derived results are discussed.