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remote assistance for blind users - MSc study (self.Blind)
submitted by goncaloflf
Greetings,
I'm an MSc student from Portugal, and I'm working on my thesis, which has the title "Nonvisual Mobile Remote Assistance". The objective of this thesis is to develop a tool to simplify the process of remotely assisting a blind user who needs help to perfom a task on a smartphone.
After reading some academic papers, one question remains unanswered: how do blind users ask for help if there is no one around them? To answer this question, we've created a Google Form with some questions.
I would kindly ask the blind users in the sub to fill in this form:
https://goo.gl/forms/cgPBHKGvyBlTQP1A3
If you have any suggestion or would like to know more about my work, feel free to send me a message.
Thank you for your time!
Edit: if you could spread this form around your connections it would be great :)
I'm an MSc student from Portugal, and I'm working on my thesis, which has the title "Nonvisual Mobile Remote Assistance". The objective of this thesis is to develop a tool to simplify the process of remotely assisting a blind user who needs help to perfom a task on a smartphone.
After reading some academic papers, one question remains unanswered: how do blind users ask for help if there is no one around them? To answer this question, we've created a Google Form with some questions.
I would kindly ask the blind users in the sub to fill in this form:
https://goo.gl/forms/cgPBHKGvyBlTQP1A3
If you have any suggestion or would like to know more about my work, feel free to send me a message.
Thank you for your time!
Edit: if you could spread this form around your connections it would be great :)
payown 6 points 4y ago
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Two applications come to mind that if you’re not aware of them, I really recommend you take a look at:
Be my eyes
And
Aira
And that’s not including the artificial intelligence options that are available.
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Two applications come to mind that if you’re not aware of them, I really recommend you take a look at:
Be my eyes
And
Aira
And that’s not including the artificial intelligence options that are available.
$1
rkingett 3 points 4y ago
Be my eyes and aira do this. NVDA remote does this on the desktop, but I will share your link.
goncaloflf [OP] 1 points 4y ago
Hey there, thank you for your help.
Our focus is assistance within the smartphone (example: send a photo on WhatsApp), and not assistance within the environment around. From what I understood, Be My Eyes does the latter. Or does it also help completing tasks on the phone?
Thanks again
Our focus is assistance within the smartphone (example: send a photo on WhatsApp), and not assistance within the environment around. From what I understood, Be My Eyes does the latter. Or does it also help completing tasks on the phone?
Thanks again
bright_side1977 2 points 4y ago
What do you mean by, ‘assistance within the smartphone’?
goncaloflf [OP] 1 points 4y ago
I mean a task done on your phone (make a phonecall, post something on Reddit, etc) and not using the phone to guide a blind user in the real world (like using the camera to find something on a shelf)
LeftAl 1 points 4y ago
Yeah, blind people don’t need help with using features on their phone because it’s already accessible with voiceover.
bright_side1977 1 points 4y ago
That can all be done with accessibility features on a phone
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