I suppose, the cross connected idea, which would require very little development here would be to have a web-site of volunteers… they all sign into Face Time using a designated e-mail address, this would be a universal address that they all would use.
They could sign in and out dependant on their availability. Now, next time you want help, rather than Face Timing a friend, you would Face Time that e-mail address. Apple would connect the call to all currently connected online devices, the first one to answer gets it. boom, issue solved. free of charge bar a user database and simple to manage web-site. you could even have different Apple iCloud e-mail addresses dependent on spoken language. so for example; bemyeyes_engl...@icloud.com bemyeyes_fre...@icloud.com etc. That would then allow someone to get a volunteer in their native language. this seems to make a lot of sense like this and has the benefit of being almost instantly available and at very low setup cost. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 29 Apr 2013, at 08:34, RobH! <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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" <s...@coolfortheblind.dk> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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