Publications

2023

• "Ultrasound Detection of Subquadricipital Recess Distension", Marco Colussi, Gabriele Civitarese, Dragan Ahmetovic, Claudio Bettini, Roberta Gualtierotti, Flora Peyvandi and Sergio Mascetti, In Intelligent Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Sonification of Navigation Instructions for People with Visual Impairment", Dragan Ahmetovic, Federico Avanzini, Adriano Baratè, Cristian Bernareggi, Marco Ciardullo, Gabriele Galimberti, Luca A. Ludovico, Sergio Mascetti and Giorgio Presti, In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Enhancing Screen Reader Intelligibility in Noisy Environments", Dragan Ahmetovic, Gabriele Galimberti, Federico Avanzini, Cristian Bernareggi, Luca Andrea Ludovico, Giorgio Presti, Gianluca Vasco and Sergio Mascetti, In IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE, 2023. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "GAJA-Guided self-Acquisition of Joint ultrAsound images", Marco Colussi, Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Gabriele Civitarese, Marco Cacciatori, Flora Peyvandi, Roberta Gualtierotti, Sara Arcudi and Claudio Bettini, In International Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, 2023. [bibtex] [doi]

2022

• "WordMelodies: Supporting the Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Children with Visual Impairment through a Mobile App", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Barbara Leporini and Sergio Mascetti, In ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM New York, NY, 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Math-to-speech effectiveness and appreciation for people with developmental learning disorders", Chiara Magosso, Dragan Ahmetovic, Tiziana Armano, Cristian Bernareggi, Sandro Coriasco, Adriano Sofia, Luisa Testa and Anna Capietto, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Play4Physio: Supporting Physical Therapy of Children with Hemophilia", Dragan Ahmetovic, Davide Bagnato, Alessandro Frangiamone, Sergio Mascetti, Simone Passaro, Andrea Taroni, Stefano Di Terlizzi, Valentina Begnozzi, Elena Anna Boccalandro, Roberta Gualtierotti and Peyvandi Flora, In PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA), 2022. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2021

• "Iterative Design of Sonification Techniques to Support People with Visual Impairments in Obstacle Avoidance", Giorgio Presti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Mattia Ducci, Cristian Bernareggi, Luca Ludovico, Adriano Baratè, Federico Avanzini and Sergio Mascetti, In Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Touch Screen Exploration of Visual Artwork for Blind People", Dragan Ahmetovic, Nahyun Kwon, Uran Oh, Cristian Bernareggi and Sergio Mascetti, In The Web Conference (WWW), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "RePlay: Touchscreen Interaction Substitution Method for Accessible Gaming", Dragan Ahmetovic, Daniele Riboli, Cristian Bernareggi and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Multi-touch Exploration and Sonification of Line Segments", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Sergio Mascetti and Federico Pini, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "MusA: Artwork Accessibility through Augmented Reality for People with Low Vision", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Kristian Keller and Sergio Mascetti, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "WordMelodies: an Inclusive Mobile App Supporting the Acquisition of Literacy Skills", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Irene Mantegazza and Sergio Mascetti, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "LaTeX as an Inclusive Accessibility Instrument for Highschool Mathematical Education", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Marco Bracco, Nadir Murru, Tiziana Armano and Anna Capietto, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Developing accessible mobile applications with cross-platform development frameworks", Sergio Mascetti, Mattia Ducci, Niccoló Cantù, Paolo Pecis and Dragan Ahmetovic, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Remote Usage Data Collection and Analysis for Mobile Accessibility Applications", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Mattia Ducci, Andrea Gerino and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) - Mobile and Pervasive Assistive Technologies Workshop (MPAT), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Rehabilitation through Accessible Mobile Gaming and Wearable Sensors", Dragan Ahmetovic, Antonio Pugliese, Sergio Mascetti, Valentina Begnozzi, Elena Boccalandro, Roberta Gualtierotti and Flora Peyvandi, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Clew3D: Automated Generation of O&M Instructions Using LIDAR-Equipped Smartphones", Hwei-Shin Harriman, Dragan Ahmetovic, Sergio Mascetti, Darren Moyle, Michael Evans and Paul Ruvolo, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2021. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2020

• "Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Transferring Route Knowledge to the Real-World", João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Dragan Ahmetovic, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris Kitani and Asakawa Chieko, In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "ReCog: Supporting Blind People in Recognizing Personal Objects", Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Emergency navigation assistance for industrial plants workers subject to situational impairment", Dragan Ahmetovic, Claudio Bettini, Mariano Ciucci, Filippo Dacarro, Paolo Dubini, Alberto Gotti, Gerard O'Reilly, Alessandra Marino, Sergio Mascetti and Denis Sarigiannis, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "SoundLines: Exploration of Line Segments through Sonification and Multi-touch Interaction", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Sergio Mascetti and Federico Pini, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2019

• "Scientific Documents", Volker Sorge, Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi and John Gardner, Chapter in Web Accessibility, Springer, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Smartphone-based localization for blind navigation in building-scale indoor environments", Masayuki Murata, Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Kris M Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "NavCog3: Large-Scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in the Wild", Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kakuya Naito, Hironobu Takagi, Kris M. Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Deep Learning Compensation of Rotation Errors during Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments or Blindness", Dragan Ahmetovic, Sergio Mascetti, Cristian Bernareggi, João Guerreiro, Uran Oh and Chieko Asakawa, In Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, 2019. [bibtex] [doi]
• "Sonification of Rotation Instructions to Support Navigation of People with Visual Impairment", Dragan Ahmetovic, Federico Avanzini, Adriano Baratè, Cristian Bernareggi, Gabriele Galimberti, Luca A. Ludovico, Sergio Mascetti and Giorgio Presti, In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Airport Accessibility and Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments", João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "WatchOut: Obstacle Sonification for People with Visual Impairment or Blindness", Giorgio Presti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Mattia Ducci, Cristian Bernareggi, Luca Ludovico, Adriano Baratè, Federico Avanzini and Sergio Mascetti, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "MuGraph: Haptic Exploration and Editing of 3D Chemical Diagrams", Cristian Bernareggi, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, João Guerreiro, Sergio Mascetti and Anna Capietto, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Impact of Expertise on Interaction Preferences for Navigation Assistance of Visually Impaired Individuals", Dragan Ahmetovic, João Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris M Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "An Independent and Interactive Museum Experience for Blind People", Saki Asakawa, João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Dragan Ahmetovic, Desi Gonzalez, Kris M Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Research to Market Transition of Mobile Assistive Technologies for People with Visual Impairments", Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic and Cristian Bernareggi, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Hacking Blind Navigation Workshop", João Guerreiro, Hernisa Kacorri, Jefrey P Bigham, Edward Cutrell, Daisuke Sato, Dragan Ahmetovic and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs with AudioFunctions.web", Dragan Ahmetovic, Niccolò Cantù, Cristian Bernareggi, João Guerreiro, Sergio Mascetti and Anna Capietto, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "WordMelodies: supporting children with visual impairment in learning literacy", Sergio Mascetti, Giovanni Leontini, Cristian Bernareggi and Dragan Ahmetovic, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2018

• "Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation", Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, Carl Posthuma, Chieko Asakawa, Kris M. Kitani and Jeffrey P. Bigham, In PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) - ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), ACM, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Insights on Assistive Orientation and Mobility of People with Visual Impairment Based on Large-Scale Longitudinal Data", Hernisa Kacorri, Sergio Mascetti, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic, Valeria Alampi, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, In Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Smartphone-based Indoor Localization for Blind Navigation across Building Complexes", Masayuki Murata, Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Kris M. Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Turn Right: Analysis of Rotation Errors in Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Individuals with Visual Impairments", Dragan Ahmetovic, Uran Oh, Sergio Mascetti and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Modeling Expertise in Assistive Navigation Interfaces for Blind People", Ohn-Bar Eshed, Joao Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In Conference on Intelligence User Interfaces, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Recognizing Visual Signatures of Spontaneous Head Gestures", Mohit Sharma, Dragan Ahmetovic, Laszlo Jeni and Kris Kitani, In Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People", João Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Axessibility: a LaTeX Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents", Dragan Ahmetovic, Tiziana Armano, Cristian Bernareggi, Michele Berra, Anna Capietto, Sandro Coriasco, Nadir Murru, Alice Ruighi and Eugenia Taranto, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments", Saki Asakawa, João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Sonification of Pathways for People with Visual Impairments", Dragan Ahmetovic, Federico Avanzini, Adriano Baratè, Cristian Bernareggi, Gabriele Galimberti, Luca A. Ludovico, Sergio Mascetti and Giorgio Presti, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "MathMelodies 2: a Mobile Assistive Application for People with Visual Impairments Developed with React Native", Niccolò Cantù, Mattia Ducci, Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi and Sergio Mascetti, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2017

• "Mind your crossings: Mining GIS imagery for crosswalk localization", Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James Coughlan and Sergio Mascetti, In Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, 2017. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Building Sequential Representations of the Real-World", João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2017. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments", Dragan Ahmetovic, Masayuki Murata, Cole Gleason, Erin Brady, Hironobu Takagi, Kris Kitani and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2017. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "LuzDeploy: A Collective Action System for Installing Navigation Infrastructure for Blind People", Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Carlos Toxtli, Saiph Savage, Jeffrey P. Bigham and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2017. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Math Melodies: Supporting Visually Impaired Primary School Students in Learning Math", Dragan Ahmetovic, Valeria Alampi, Cristian Bernareggi, Andrea Gerino and Sergio Mascetti, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2017. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2016

• "Sonification of guidance data during road crossing for people with visual impairments or blindness", Sergio Mascetti, Lorenzo Picinali, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic and Cristian Bernareggi, In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Robust traffic lights detection on mobile devices for pedestrians with visual impairment", Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Andrea Gerino, Cristian Bernareggi, Mario Busso and Alessandro Rizzi, In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Academic Press, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "ZebraRecognizer: Pedestrian Crossing Recognition for People with Visual Impairment or Blindness", Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Andrea Gerino and Cristian Bernareggi, In Pattern Recognition, Pergamon, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Supporting Pedestrians with Visual Impairment During Road Crossing: A Mobile Application for Traffic Lights Detection", Sergio Mascetti, Dragan Ahmetovic, Andrea Gerino, Cristian Bernareggi, Mario Busso and Alessandro Rizzi, In International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "NavCog: A Navigational Cognitive Assistant for the Blind", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cole Gleason, Chengxiong Ruan, Kris Kitani, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, In International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Supporting Orientation of People with Visual Impairment: Analysis of Large Scale Usage Data", Hernisa Kacorri, Sergio Mascetti, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "NavCog: turn-by-turn smartphone navigation assistant for people with visual impairments or blindness", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cole Gleason, Kris Kitani, Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, In International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A), 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2015

• "Zebra Crossing Spotter: Automatic Population of Spatial Databases for Increased Safety of Blind Travelers", Dragan Ahmetovic, Roberto Manduchi, James M Coughlan and Sergio Mascetti, In ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2014

• "ZebraRecognizer: efficient and precise localization of pedestrian crossings", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Andrea Gerino and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2014. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Mathmelodies: inclusive design of a didactic game to practice mathematics", Andrea Gerino, Nicolò Alabastro, Cristian Bernareggi, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2014. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Audiofunctions: Eyes-free exploration of mathematical functions on tablets", Marzia Taibbi, Cristian Bernareggi, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), 2014. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2013

• "Gonio, Aequus and Incognitus: three spatial granularities for privacy-aware systems", Letizia Bertolaja, Dragan Ahmetovic and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Mobile Data Management Workshops (MDM), 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
• "Smartphone-assisted mobility in urban environments for visually impaired users through computer vision and sensor fusion", , In International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2012

• "Independent way-finding for visually impaired users through multi-sensorial data analysis on mobile devices", , In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM) Workshops, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]

2011

• "Zebralocalizer: identification and localization of pedestrian crossings", Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi and Sergio Mascetti, In International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2011. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]


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