[bksvol-discuss] Re: Innovative computer 'eyes' help blind read: The iCAREReader
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:04:35 -0800 (PST)
Wonderful!!
Shelley, when you get finished with grad school,
(because I don't think you'll have time before then)
Why don't you make them to sell? You'd need to get
permission from the authors and/or publishers,
probably, but possibly they wouldn't charge you much
in royalties, or you could give them a certain
percentage of your sales. I'm sure there would be a
market, both for the books and for the kits you
describe to go along with print books, like those
books on juggling that have the balls attached that I
bought for my kids years ago. There was something else
like that, too, another year, but I don't remember
what it was.
Cindy
-- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I think indeed for mail, or for example if they made
> it small enough, for
> say me to find out which tea bag package in my
> Bigaloos sampler is which. I
> got cinnamon last night, not a fav, but I didn't
> hate it either, smile. And
> again if it is small enough for doing things on the
> road so to speak,
> OCRing, packages in the supermarket, or say at a
> meeting, where carrying a
> flat bed scanner even if it is light and small like
> the Epson wouldn't be
> practical.
>
> There are several companies who do "Twin vision"
> books.
>
> In fact I have made them myself.
>
> The two commercial companies are Seedlings Braille
> Books and National
> Braille Press. In fact NBP offers a "children's
> book of the month"
> selection, a subscription, is well, I don't
> remember, smile. Also other
> volunteer groups with NLS make twin vision books,
> but as Alison has pointed
> out they are pretty limited, which is why having the
> books on bookshare so
> valuable.
>
> To make your own twin vision books which I have on
> occasion, you use clear
> laminate paper, or "contact paper". Put it into a
> brailler or use a slate
> and Braille out what should be on each page, then
> cut out, trim, and peel
> off the backing and paste.
>
> There are a variety of ways to make homemade tactile
> graphics, and there are
> several companies who offer Tactile graphics kits.
>
> I use a piece of metal screening taped to a board,
> and I place the item I
> need to trace on top of the item, and make it
> tactile that way, though I am
> cheap, smile.
>
> In deed different textures can be used to explain
> things like shading or
> color. there are a Variety of sand paper materials
> that you can use to make
> textures, lace, felt, foam, and sand, and glitter,
> and a whole bunch of
> other things. smile.
>
> Is a favorite topic of mine.
>
> There are also books called "book bags" where you
> would put objects related
> to the book in a box, for the person to feel or
> experience as you read the
> book.
>
> For example, in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you
> could have prepared ahead
> of time small pieces of each of the thing the
> caterpillar ate, and let the
> students experience the different flavors, and of
> course, if you had access
> to a caterpillar, let them touch the caterpillar. I
> also had a plastic
> butterfly in my kit.
>
> For the book "A Chesapeake Bay Walk" is in the
> collection, I had let me
> think, a bald eagle figurine, a jelly fish figurine,
> a turtle, a goose
> feather, oyster shells, a crab (fake), star fish,,
> clam shell, some sea
> weed,
>
> And I had sounds of the ocean and the Bay on a CD,
> was a great lesson,
> though I got yelled at because I didn't know that
> Bald Eagles can be either
> brown, and white, or black and white, or brown black
> and white. I have
> always drawn mine black and white, but that was
> apparently wrong or so my
> advisor told me, smile. Guess it wasn't a huge
> offense, smile, as I got an
> A for student teaching.
>
>
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:29 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Innovative computer
> 'eyes' help blind read:
> The iCAREReader
>
>
>
> You had the initials right but not in the right
> order (NLS). Anyway, in
> magazines they will sometimes put CAPTIONS: and
> just tell something about
> the picture, though not much. In textbooks,
> however, they will put the
> outline drawings even in Braille, but sighted people
> have trouble figuring
> out what they are sometimes because of the absence
> of shading, colors, etc.
>
> There are books called Twin Vision which are written
> for blind people to
> read to sighted children. Those pictures are pasted
> on and I understand
> that they look more realistic to sighted children.
> I do not know who owns
> Twin Vision, only that I have seen a lot of those
> books at the Illinois
> School for the Visually Impaired library.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:23 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Innovative computer
> 'eyes' help blind read:
> The iCAREReader
>
>
> Interesting. But as I understand the article (and I
> only read it quickly), one would have to take a book
> and scan it. Wouldn't it be quicker, and less
> expensive, once the scanner goes on the market, to
> download a book from bookshare if it's there? I can
> see the advantage in reading mail or magazines,
> though.
>
> Now all we need is someway to translate
> illustrations,
> into Braille, or Daisy (whatever that is), or to
> describe. Are illustrations in books from NSL (do I
> have the initials right?) described?
>
> I would think that it would be possible, though
> possibly expensive, to make at least the outlines of
> figures in books raised so that people could feel
> them
> -- and maybe make the insides of the outlines that
> are
> usually colored in different textures.
>
> Hmmm. If I were younger and had the money I'd start
> such a business. I bet it would become profitable.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
> --- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > New type of scanning and OCR style thing, I can
> see
> > where this would be
> > beneficial.
> >
> >
> > Arizona Republic
> > Thursday, March 17, 2005
> >
> > Innovative computer 'eyes' help blind read: The
> > iCARE Reader
> >
> > By Alison Stanton, Special for The Republic
> >
> > Thanks to an innovative device developed by
> students
> > and staff at the Center
> > for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at
> > Arizona State University,
> > visually impaired people will now have a chance to
> > read their mail, browse
> > through a magazine or look over a restaurant menu
> > quickly and easily.
> >
> > Graduate students Michael Rush and Sushant Bhatia
> > began creating the
> > computerized device, called the iCARE Reader, in
> > 2002, collaborating with
> > ASU's School of Architecture and Design.
> >
> > The iCARE Reader uses a 13.7 megapixel camera to
> > take a picture of any type
> > of printed page and load it within seven seconds
> > into a computer. The text
> > can then be read aloud at different speeds by a
> > synthesized voice.
> > advertisement
> >
> > "This is a tremendous opportunity to bring the
> power
> > and potential of
> > computing and information technology to help
> > individuals with disabilities
> > and in general in the realm of enhancing human
> > performance," said Sethuraman
> > Panchanathan, 43, director of the center, part of
> > the Ira A. Fulton School
> > of Engineering.
> >
> > Unlike traditional scanning devices that can also
> > convert text into voice,
> > Panchanathan said the iCARE Reader is faster, more
> > accurate and lets
> > visually impaired people skip through documents
> > quickly and easily.
> >
> > "You can go back by word, character or paragraph,"
> > he said.
> >
> > Laura Bratton, a junior majoring in psychology at
> > ASU, said she enjoys using
> > the iCARE Reader.
> >
> > "It's a lot faster than the traditional scanners,"
> > said Bratton, 20, who was
> > diagnosed at age 8 with a condition that has
> caused
> > her retina to
> > deteriorate.
> >
> > Bratton, who works in CUbiC and helped test the
> > device, said she uses the
> > reader about once a week and likes the freedom
> that
> > the device provides.
> >
> > "I have used it mainly for pleasure readings -
> books
> > that are not available
> > in alternative formats that I can scan, mail and
> > personal letters," she
> > said. "I think it will provide me the chance to do
> > more things independently
> > like read books and fliers."
> >
> > Terri Hedgpeth, 43, is a disability research
> > specialist at CUbiC who lost
> > both eyes at 18 months of age due to retinal
> > blasphoma. Hedgpeth said that
> > before developing the iCARE Reader, staff members
> > met with visually impaired
> > people, disability specialists and teachers to
> learn
> > what would be wanted in
> > such a device.
> >
> > "We took the unique approach. We decided to ask
> the
> > consumer what they
> > want," the Tempe resident said, laughing.
> >
> > Once the iCARE Reader was created, Panchanathan
> said
> > he and others from
> > CUbiC sought additional feedback from visually
> > impaired people and other
> > groups.
> >
> > "We are getting feedback before we deploy it,"
> > Panchanathan said, adding
> > that CUbiC recently debuted the iCARE Reader at
> the
> > Foundation for Blind
> > Children in Phoenix.
> >
> > John Black, 56, a research scientist at CUbiC, is
> > proud of the work done to
> > create the iCARE Reader.
> >
> > "All my life I've had a love affair with books,
> and
> > allowing people access
> > to these books is important to me," the Tempe
> > resident said.
> >
> > Hedgpeth said she knows from personal experience
> > that without new and
> > innovative devices, many visually impaired people
> > simply avoid reading
> > things that are not readily available in Braille.
> >
> > "For a lot of visually impaired students and the
> > elderly, if it is too much
> > hassle to read, then people don't," she said.
> >
> > Hedgpeth, who has used other forms of reading
> > technology for years and found
> > them "tedious and time-consuming," loves the ease
> of
> > iCARE Reader.
> >
> > "It's a lot easier. I like to be able to go in
> there
> > and put something down
> > and know what it is quickly," she said. "This
> gives
> > the person a chance to
> > read a book the way anyone else does."
> >
> > "The important word is 'independent,' " Black
> said.
> > "We are hoping to give
> > independence to people to read without relying on
> > anyone else."
> >
> >
> >
>
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