Sunday, May 17, 2009

Seeing for the Blind Using Moble Device Web Tool

Those with visual difficulties could carry a camera phone for taking and sending pictures of items and situations for which they would like a visual interpretation along with a message describing their specific inquiry. This information would then be sent to a web site where people answer the questions about the images. The answers are then sent to the camera phone as a message or through live conversation.

Volunteers could be motivated to interpret more images by prizes and drawings where the odds of winning increase with more interpretations. Interpretations would also be rated by the client to help eliminate bad actors.

Gaming of the system could also be discouraged by requiring a credit card during registration. Volunteer integrity could also be increased by restricting recruiting to churches with churches agreeing to staff the site at certain hours. With sufficient volume multiple interpretations could be made available to the client and volunteers could rate other volunteers' responses.

Volunteer participation could be made easier by allowing inquiries to be sent to and replied from volunteers' phones. This functioning may need to be restricted to those inquiries that don't require high resolution viewing.

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