Tarika Kumar
Inclusive Design, Ethnography

Speech Is Silver, Silence is Golden

How visually impaired runners and their guides communicate.

Venue
CHI 2024, Honolulu
With
Giulia Barbareschi, Christopher Changmok Kim, George Chernyshov, Kai Kunze
Speech Is Silver, Silence is Golden

Many visually impaired runners prefer to run with a sighted guide. Using video and interviews from 6 pairs, we looked at how they communicate: directions, context, recreational talk, and the signals passed through the tether they share.

Published at CHI 2024. Giulia Barbareschi and I contributed equally.