
ZoomBoard: an Affordable, Portable System to Improve Access to Presentations and Lecture Notes for Low Vision Viewers
The goal of the project is to develop a “ZoomBoard” system that students with low vision can use to better access visual material on a whiteboard or blackboard. The prototype version of the system that we plan to develop in this grant will consist of a dedicated camera system placed by the teacher to capture a view of the board, which wirelessly transmits a video stream that will be displayed on a student’s iPad. The student will use the ZoomBoard app to view this video stream, zoom in on any region of interest using a pinch gesture on the iPad, and apply image enhancements such as contrast enhancement or color transformations for maximum clarity.
The project is funded by a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness/Reader's Digest (PI: Dr. Ender Tekin at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/staff/tekin-ender/).
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Coughlan Lab
Read MoreThe goal of our laboratory is to develop and test assistive technology for blind and visually impaired persons that is enabled by computer vision and other sensor technologies.
- Ender Tekin - Associate Scientist at The University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Giovanni Fusco - Chief Technology Officer, Dreamwaves
- James Coughlan - Senior Scientist - Coughlan Lab Director