[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: iPhone app lets the blind see through the crowd’s eyes
- From: Nadia Cioffi <cioffi.nadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:39:20 -0400
Thanks I find that quit intussting
Nadia
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thought some of you might find this news item interesting. Hope the link
> to read the full article comes through.
>
> iPhone app lets the blind see through the crowd’s eyes
> May 12, 2011
> Source:
> New Scientist One Per Cent
> — May 10, 2011
> Using an iPhone app called VizWiz, the blind can now receive realtime
> assistance
> from sighted workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service.
> With the app, blind users use their phone to take a picture of something
> they want
> identified, have it sent automatically to a recruited worker on the
> Internet, and
> receive back an answer, all within an average time of 27 seconds. Yasmina,
> a student
> at the University of Rochester, used the app to identify a can of coconut
> milk amongst
> other canned goods.
> During a volunteer test session, participants asked questions like “What
> denomination
> is this bill?,” “Do you see picnic tables across the parking lot?,” and
> “What temperature
> is my oven set to?”
> Read original article
>
>
>
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