Dustin Adams, a Ph.D student at the University of California at Santa
Cruz, has teamed up with colleagues at his school in order to craft an
app that helps visually impaired users
line up the ideal snapshot. The project started out as a quiz, asking
54 people with varying degrees of ocular impairment what they found most
difficult about taking photos. From there, he essentially boiled that
down into requirements for a smartphone program. For starters, the app
does away with a conventional shutter button, instead relying on an
upward swipe gesture to grab a frame.
Moreover, it integrates face detection and voice accessibility,
enabling the phone itself to talk to the photographer and alert him /
her as to how many faces are detected and in focus. The app also
captures a 30-second audio clip whenever the camera mode is activated,
which helps remind users of what was going on during the capture of a
shot. Unfortunately, there aren't any screenshots or videos of the app
in action just yet, but that's scheduled to change when it's formally
unveiled at the Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
conference in Greece later this month.
Source : engadget , 10th May 2013
No comments:
Post a Comment