I don't want to be a wet blanket, but don't such an app already exist, don't we use facetime for this already; just flick the camera or phone round and show them anything; this works already, generically. Developing specialist apps where the basic generic one already does the job perfectly, strikes me as a little pointless. This is more a "Sighted" mindset.
Rh. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Søren Jensen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 5:16 PM Subject: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of Hi all. I'm involved in this cool project. Read more here: Be My Eyes is a non-profit initiative that aims to equip blind with "a pair of eyes" which fits into your pocket. This can be done by the blind at any time, on his/her smart phone: you start an application, and can through this be put in direct video connection with a voluntary sighted person. The sighted volunteer helps you through the camera in the blind person's smart phone to see (video transmitted to the helpers smart phone) what the blind person is pointing at with the smart phone camera and can solve a given task. The task could, for example. be: Reading the date on a milk carton, see if two socks are alike, read the buttons on the washing machine, etc. It is the blind who has control over what the volunteer sees, while the volunteer can for example say "a little closer" or "date is on the other side of the milk carton." This way the blind and the sighted volunteer help each other to solve the given task. The technical part of the project is, first, to develop an application available for the blind that can connect the users with sighted volunteers - here is so far developed a prototype. The second part is to develop a system on a server that all Be My Eyes will run on. When you create a user account on the system, you could choose whether you are the visual impaired who needs help, or if you are the sighted person who wants to help. The sighted help to be able both to use the system on an iPhone (or other smart phone platforms), an iPad tablet (or other tablet platforms) with a larger screen so it's easier to see the image and on a computer where the image is, of course, it depends on the screen connected to the computer. The idea is to build a network of volunteers who want to help. You can even sign in and out anything useful, and you can specify what time of the day or week you have time to help, where you will be notified accordingly. If technology allows, then the visually impaired also use the app over 3G and 4G, making the possibilities endless, since in this way you can use the system anywhere. This requires of course that as a visually impaired learn some techniques to use the camera properly. The advantage of video interview is that the sighted volunteer can guide one to use the camera properly, which eventually becomes better and better. The team behind Be My Eyes is a mixture of blind, partly sighted and sighted people who know the depth of the problems the project to solve. All involved have contributed on a strictly volunteer basis. The idea stems from Hans Jørgen Wiberg who himself is visually impaired. Hans Jørgen works as a visually impaired consultant in the Danish Blind Society. Here he experienced countless times to sighted assistance in a moment would have made the blind able to solve a variety of tasks on their own. When Hans tried video conferencing on his smart phone "dropped the pieces in place" - through a voluntary network could be in the moments when the blind was faced with tasks that required vision, get assistance via video chat on your mobile! We are looking for volunteer programmers, visually impaired as impaired. The advantage is that a visually impaired programmer familiar with the challenges of accessibility, and a sighted programmer to help with the visual. We are looking for both people who create applications for PC / Mac, iOS and server based systems. In order to implement this exciting project, we are also looking for financial help, as all in the team is working volunteer and we need some help outside the company as programmers and such, which is not cheap. If you want that all this comes true, then you can donate to us on Indiegogo at the following link: www.indiegogo.com/projects/be-my-eyes-community-help-for-the-blind Read more on our website at: http://www.facebook.com/l/0AQHAl41NAQG333R7tdGulVawm-wGyuVVtA68MvtPCYSjfg/ www.bemyeyes.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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