Eyephone videotelephony for blind

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Eyephone videotelephony for blind

• Bjørn Hestnes, Telenor RD
• In collaboration with
• Telenor RD
• Teolys
• MediaLT
• Opplysningen AS
• Norges Blindeforbund
• Rikstrygdeverket
• Tandberg

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Videotelephony for blind

• A blind user calls an assistant to have described
  what is in his vicinity

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Test terminal
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On the move
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Reading text
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Video quality to achieve all situations
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Video quality to achieve all situations
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Heterogeneous videoconferences
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3G Gateway pilot technical overview
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3G gateway block diagram
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3G Eyephone project

• Project with
• 10 test persons
• 10 friends that guide
• Opplysningen AS as additional guide centre
• Hand out 2 pieces 3G mobile phones to each
• Study user pattern for 6 months
• Study implications for Opplysningen as a guide
  service

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Research Questions

• Based on earlier results
• Will 3G videotelephony be perceived as "good
  enough"?
• Will selected friends and family be the guide?
• Will Opplysningen AS be the supplimented guide
  service
• (for example for confidential topics)?

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Lost
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Interview
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Guide dog training
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Conclusions

• Totally, 100 test persons in the project, 10 for
  3G
• Used for
• Regain control when lost
• Find something lost
• To operate devices (mini-bank, washing machine)
• Reading text (signs, soup packet instructions)
• Self-invented situations
• Though too poor quality (for certain situations),
  users adopt
• Inadequate for
• Viewing the environment with many details
• Reading small text
• In the dark
• The users feel safer with the Eye-phone
• Range of movement has expanded
• Close family feels more relaxed
• Friends and family is the guide in 90

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So

• Visually impaired 3G users are very innovative
  today
• They identify asymmetric remote inspection
• Also usable also for sighted, normal people