This App Helps Blind People "See". Here's How.
Singapore telco StarHub wants to empower the visually handicapped, here's how they plan on doing it.
By Sadho Ram — 29 Aug 2013, 06:23 PM — Updated about 11 years ago
Here's how this new app will help the blind ‘see’
MySmartEye is a mobile application that enables volunteers to transmit descriptions of photos to the visually impaired.
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Developed by StarHub and Tribal DDB, the MySmartEye can connect visually-impaired persons to a worldwide network of volunteers who will look at pictures snapped by users and describe them.
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This description will be read out over the visually-impaired person's phone. Alongside the app launch, StarHub also announced today (Aug 27) a mobile plan for the visually and hearing impaired.
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Muhammad Zahier, a client of the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, snapping an picture with MySmartEye
Image via cnet.comTo use MySmartEye, all micro-volunteers have to log in through their Facebook account, helping to ensure credibility and responsibility of the comments given.
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In addition, comments and descriptions from micro-volunteers are kept authentic via a rating system to encourage people to provide more descriptive and vivid details of the picture.
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The app was open to all customers from any telco and the goal was "beyond competition". It is available over iOS and Android, and plans to expand this to other platforms such as Windows Phone will depend on demand.
zdnet.comOne visually impaired user said the app allows him to feel more socially connected with the world
He said MySmartEye allows him to actually engage with real people, instead of listening to automated responses from image-recognition technology-driven apps which he previously tried.
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There are about 200 micro-volunteers assisting on the platform to date, and the current app has been adopted by about 3,000 clients from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped and the Singapore Association for the Deaf.
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This handset with an innovative "touchscreen" is being developed which will make use of Shape Memory Alloy technology
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