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Blind community, what's a form of technology you wish existed that would help your day-to-day life? (self.Blind)
submitted by bashfulroses
I'm an interaction design student in university and my senior project requires me to make a form of technology that will assist others. I really wanted to choose the blind community to assist with my invention/innovation. It could be anything from a phone app to a physical object.
OutWestTexas 18 points 4y ago
Self driving cars
HDMILex 6 points 4y ago
The amount of battles we'll have to fight to be able to get a license for that thing will be fucking unbelievable. Perhaps NFB will finally do the right thing and actually advocate for us rather than for their own sponsor's interests. But that's another story altogether ;)
gadithya2021 0 points 4y ago
@HDMI this is just something I been wondering. How do u type this? Do u have someone type it for you or do you use a keyboard and mouse on pc Reddit?
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gadithya2021 1 points 4y ago
Where’s the sidebar
Edit: never mind thanks for your help
Edit: never mind thanks for your help
CosmicBunny97 1 points 4y ago
Agreed! Just how would we go about getting a license?
Raf_AL 7 points 4y ago
I wanna suggest that you'd try to make DJing more accessible.
All the DJ software that is legal to use professionally isn't accessible at all. I'd like to work as a DJ, so this would help me throughout the day.
Or perhaps you could try to make music production more accessible, I'd like to make music in Ableton or FL.
Obviously I'd like to be able to see as well, but These two suggestions might be easier to at least try. If you'd manage to make this happen, You'd make my day.
Wish you the best of luck on your project.
All the DJ software that is legal to use professionally isn't accessible at all. I'd like to work as a DJ, so this would help me throughout the day.
Or perhaps you could try to make music production more accessible, I'd like to make music in Ableton or FL.
Obviously I'd like to be able to see as well, but These two suggestions might be easier to at least try. If you'd manage to make this happen, You'd make my day.
Wish you the best of luck on your project.
bashfulroses [OP] 4 points 4y ago
I'll look into this for sure! Thank you so much for your comment.
vwlsmssng 6 points 4y ago
On behalf of someone I know ...
A new talking radio.
We have 3 of these but they are no longer made and the electronics seem fragile. They are all gradually failing in one way or the other.
$1
What CNET describe as a novelty makes a real radio practical for a VI person
When they work they give us the following:
1. A good sounding DAB radio.
2. When tuning through the station list the name of stations are announced.
3. Touching the handle one causes the current time to be announced
4. Touching the handle twice causes the alarm settings to be announced.
5. All the menus are spoken as well as shown on the small back-lit display.
6. Good tactile feedback from the dials and buttons.
7. Rotary dial to select the station, that clicks as you turn it, announces the stations as it goes through the list then is pushed to select the station just announced.
8. Rotary dial to adjust the volume.
9 Push button pre-sets to select favourite stations
10. A sleep timer push button
11. Usual DAB radio features such as scanning to find all services
As you are probably in the USA you will have to substitute HD-Radio for DAB.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/digital-radio
A realistic project might use a unit like a Raspberry-Pi for the speech synthesis and UI management and an rtl-sdr for reception
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/decoding-and-listening-to-hd-radio-nrsc-5-with-an-rtl-sdr/
The speech synthesis and UI part could then be portable to a DAB based system.
A new talking radio.
We have 3 of these but they are no longer made and the electronics seem fragile. They are all gradually failing in one way or the other.
$1
What CNET describe as a novelty makes a real radio practical for a VI person
When they work they give us the following:
1. A good sounding DAB radio.
2. When tuning through the station list the name of stations are announced.
3. Touching the handle one causes the current time to be announced
4. Touching the handle twice causes the alarm settings to be announced.
5. All the menus are spoken as well as shown on the small back-lit display.
6. Good tactile feedback from the dials and buttons.
7. Rotary dial to select the station, that clicks as you turn it, announces the stations as it goes through the list then is pushed to select the station just announced.
8. Rotary dial to adjust the volume.
9 Push button pre-sets to select favourite stations
10. A sleep timer push button
11. Usual DAB radio features such as scanning to find all services
As you are probably in the USA you will have to substitute HD-Radio for DAB.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/digital-radio
A realistic project might use a unit like a Raspberry-Pi for the speech synthesis and UI management and an rtl-sdr for reception
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/decoding-and-listening-to-hd-radio-nrsc-5-with-an-rtl-sdr/
The speech synthesis and UI part could then be portable to a DAB based system.
bashfulroses [OP] 3 points 4y ago
Thank you so much for the detailed comment. I'll definitely look into this, this would actually be perfect and I think my professor would approve it. It hits on a lot of the points of the rubric.
vwlsmssng 1 points 4y ago
Here is the product user guide
https://support-uk.pure.com/en/downloads/sonus-1xt
This will give you ideas for the UI. The tactile experience is the part to get right.
For HD-Radio I'm guessing you will find these standards relevant:
https://www.nrscstandards.org/standards-and-guidelines/documents/standards/nrsc-5-d/nrsc-5-d.asp
They will tell you how to get things like how the station names are stored in the digital stream. How you pronounce these station names is your problem.
If you struggle working with HD-Radio the you could try working with $1 if you can get what seem to be the only broadcasts in the USA by $1
For any testing you do you ideally want to be able to record a segment of a broadcast including the digital stream and to be able to play it back over a local RF modulator and pipe the signal over co-ax to your receiver. This way you are testing with a reproducible stream. Building such a test environment would be a project in itself.
Finally, and realistically for a student project, don't bother with an FM front end, instead build a VI friendly internet radio and leave the FM front end part of the project to next year's students.
https://support-uk.pure.com/en/downloads/sonus-1xt
This will give you ideas for the UI. The tactile experience is the part to get right.
For HD-Radio I'm guessing you will find these standards relevant:
https://www.nrscstandards.org/standards-and-guidelines/documents/standards/nrsc-5-d/nrsc-5-d.asp
They will tell you how to get things like how the station names are stored in the digital stream. How you pronounce these station names is your problem.
If you struggle working with HD-Radio the you could try working with $1 if you can get what seem to be the only broadcasts in the USA by $1
For any testing you do you ideally want to be able to record a segment of a broadcast including the digital stream and to be able to play it back over a local RF modulator and pipe the signal over co-ax to your receiver. This way you are testing with a reproducible stream. Building such a test environment would be a project in itself.
Finally, and realistically for a student project, don't bother with an FM front end, instead build a VI friendly internet radio and leave the FM front end part of the project to next year's students.
FunCicada 1 points 4y ago
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM; mondiale being Italian and French for "worldwide") is a set of digital audio broadcasting technologies designed to work over the bands currently used for analogue radio broadcasting including AM broadcasting, particularly shortwave, and FM broadcasting. DRM is more spectrally efficient than AM and FM, allowing more stations, at higher quality, into a given amount of bandwidth, using various MPEG-4 audio coding formats.
HDMILex 3 points 4y ago
self-driving car.
A robot or some shit that'll help me cross busy roads
Something to eliminate the white cane so I don't have to hold something in my hand to feel where I'm going. And for social reasons too. On that subject, an actual vision-AI chip that could be implanted in my brain to "see" my actual surroundings, peoples body language etc. And I could call on a sighted person remotely (included in the price of the chip) who could interpret shit that AI can't figure out.
We already superheros, which just need that technology to enhance our power so that we can do WAAAAY more.
No seriously though we're just regular people like anyone else but without sight :D
A robot or some shit that'll help me cross busy roads
Something to eliminate the white cane so I don't have to hold something in my hand to feel where I'm going. And for social reasons too. On that subject, an actual vision-AI chip that could be implanted in my brain to "see" my actual surroundings, peoples body language etc. And I could call on a sighted person remotely (included in the price of the chip) who could interpret shit that AI can't figure out.
We already superheros, which just need that technology to enhance our power so that we can do WAAAAY more.
No seriously though we're just regular people like anyone else but without sight :D
bashfulroses [OP] 1 points 4y ago
A year ago in the beginning of my studies I created a kind of vest that eliminated the need for a cane, it had proximity sensors on it that warned of objects getting too close and vibrated in the location that the object was. I couldn't find a way to help with everything though, like curbs or crossing the road, and making it as a clothing item also becomes limiting in its own way.
Thanks for your comment though! Everyone in my class just tries to redesign gaming controllers or something along those lines so I actually want to help someone with my project. :)
Thanks for your comment though! Everyone in my class just tries to redesign gaming controllers or something along those lines so I actually want to help someone with my project. :)
The_Gray_Mouser 3 points 4y ago
Probably goggles to be able to see. Just saying bruh
jr2thdoc 1 points 4y ago
Programable buttons that can read aloud what you stick them on, since everything is going to touch. Microwaves, ovens, Kuerigs, stovetops all have smooth touch screens. Or maybe voice controlled stovetop or microwave, oven or appliances un general.
Imdarkj 1 points 4y ago
I want whatever technology would prevent me from losing anything lol
Laser_Lens_4 1 points 4y ago
Eye transplants
CosmicBunny97 1 points 4y ago
Yes!
Or even like...artificial retinas, optic nerves etc. I don't even know if that's possible, but it would be cool!
Or even like...artificial retinas, optic nerves etc. I don't even know if that's possible, but it would be cool!
GrumpyFinn -2 points 4y ago
Magical seeing glasses.
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