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Full History - 2019 - 11 - 07 - ID#dsye86
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Survey about cinematographic experience for blind and visually impaired people (self.Blind)
submitted by lutalicopia
Hello there, we are a group of french students in engineering, for a UX class we are working on prototyping a cinematographic experience for blind and visually impaired people.

If you are interested to help us you can answer this form (it only has 5 questions)

$1

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Thanks :)
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
This seems interesting but it’s difficult to answer the questions. I prefer description for all film experiences, at home and in the cinema both, but I am not interested in any other sense being part of that experience. Disney World had a little film like this where they released smells at certain times and the seats moved and I found it very unpleasant. It was too much stimulus and nothing useful for me (there was no audio description so smells and motion came out of nowhere).
I would be interested if AI is capable of giving any kind of audio description that makes sense. Currently I haven’t heard of anything that can describe a picture accurately, let alone a film.
lutalicopia [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Thank you very much, we really appreciate your feedback. Based on your comments and the results of the survey it seems that the only interesting sense would be touch but the device creating audio description is more popular. Our class is about prototyping, I agree it would be currently difficult for a device to create real time audio description all movie long. I think a possibility would be to create a simplified audio description when the user triggers it. For example describing the number of people, the area they are in, the objects on the foreground...
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
I highly recommend listening to some audio described films to get an idea of what is useful for us. A narrator describing the important actions between dialogue is very helpful.
bradley22 1 points 3y ago
I’d personally not buy this. The idea of smelling or tasting in a movie is strange to me but I wanted to let you know Audio Description already exists so there would be no need for your device that tells the user what’s going on.
lutalicopia [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thank you very much for your feedback, it's really useful for us. About the audio description device or app, the idea would be powered by artificial intelligence for movies with no native audio description.
bradley22 0 points 3y ago
No problem.

That would be interesting to check out.
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