Help needed with Android App

[Emily Toop]

Hi everyone,

I just received this email from the University of Brighton. They are looking for an Android dev to help them work on a new app for blind users. It sounds like it could be an interesting project to work on, however I am a little far away (Chile) and rather too busy to help them out. 

Is there anyone on the Brighton Mobile group for whom this would appeal?

Emily

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From: <A.S....@brighton.ac.uk>
Date: 2 February 2012 11:57
Subject: Help needed with Android App
To: in...@radicalrobot.co.uk


Hi Emily,

I need some help with implementing an Android app for blind users and was wondering if you might be able to take this on.

Roughly, the functionality would be: user takes snapshot with phone, app sends snapshot to server at Brighton Uni (ubuntu), snapshot is displayed to human operator who types in message which the app sends back to the user's phone where it's read out by the phone's native text-to-speech.

Issues are how to design the user interface in a way that suits blind users, how to enable multiple users and multiple operators to interact, etc.

This would hopefully lead to a larger funded research project on image description for blind and partially sighted users.

The work itself would have be done some time over the next 2 months or so.

What do you think?

Looking forward to hearing from you.  Cheers,

Anya

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Dr Anja Belz
Reader in Computer Science
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
University of Brighton
Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
Web: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/home/Anja.Belz
Tel: +44 (0)1273 642909
Fax: +44 (0)1273 642908

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
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