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Doing research on interpreting natural language descriptions of games like chess and tic tac toe, looking for someone blind who I can attempt to describe boardgames to for scientific research (self.Blind)
submitted by clotch
Hello! I'm a fourth-year undergraduate at a university looking for someone who was born blind and is still blind that I can speak to about mental representations of language. My research is on converting natural language descriptions of tasks and games into structured formalisms that artificial intelligence agents can interact with. This research has many applications for AI in the real world. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in letting me try to explain the game of chess for example, including the board, the pieces and their interactions, and the goal conditions. Ideally I would like to ask you questions throughout the explanation so that I can better develop language descriptions that capture tasks without the need for any visual information. This conversation can be in whatever format you are comfortable with. It could be totally over Reddit chat, it could be over the phone, or pretty much any medium. Thanks so much for reading this!
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siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Sure I’ll help. I have played games but not a huge gamer so yeah.
Superfreq2 1 points 2y ago
Sent you a PM Clotch.
CloudyBeep 1 points 2y ago
Just so you're aware, blind people can play board games like chess and noughts and crosses, so you're going to have quite a hard time if you need to find people who don't know how to play these games (you didn't specify that in your post, so maybe not).
clotch [OP] 2 points 2y ago
Thanks for this comment. Ideally it would be someone who has never played a board game before, but I know this is unreasonable. I think teaching them a novel board game would be just as helpful for my research. Even if they already understand the game, I would like to ask them about what their mental representation of it "looks" like.
fawazar94 1 points 2y ago
I do play monopoly online, but never played on the board or touched it before. but i know the chess board of course. if i can help, i'll do it gladly.
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