Projects
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RERC Center Grant
The RERC Center Grant funds a number of projects for blind and visually impaired persons. The projects broadly fall into the categories of Functional Assessment, Access to Spatial and Graphic Information, and STEM Education.
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The Macular Search Test
We introduced a novel approach to topographic function assessment in visual impairment that requires neither fixation nor reading.
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Video Description Research and Development Center
The Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRDC) investigates innovative technologies and techniques for making online video more accessible to blind and visually-impaired students and consumers.
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Realistic Hearing Aid Outcomes
The primary objective of this project is to develop a set of realistic outcome measures that relate to the real-world use of hearing aids.
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Descriptive Video Exchange (DVX)
This innovative technology permitted wiki-style crowd-sourcing of video description in a completely new way, opening the door to amateur description provided for any video content, and distributed to anyone without modifying or redistributing the original video in any way.
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YouDescribe
YouDescribe is a free, web-based platform for adding audio description to YouTube content.
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Wearabraille
WearaBraille is a research project into wearable computing, and the use of MEMS sensors as novel input technology to mobile devices such as laptops, PDAs and smartphones. Our prototype device functions much like a Braille keyboard, but instead of buttons for each finger to press, there are accele
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Visual-Impairment Research Agenda for Description (VIRAD)
A systematic road map charting gaps in the quantitative evidence about how description can and should be used to improve video accessibility for the blind.
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Remote Real-Time Description (RRTD)
Remote real-time description (RRTD) is a simple technique that will allow a describer anywhere in the world to provide real-time description for a video stream being viewed by a visually-impaired student at home, in the classroom, or on the go. In RRTD, a video feed is streamed to the describer who passes the audio (and optionally the video) to the student, along with the added live description.
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Expanded Populations Research Agenda for Description (EPRAD)
Bridge Multimedia is collaborating with the VDRDC and the DLN to develop EPRAD, a research road map to identify the critical questions that will improve our evidence-based understanding of how description may apply to the education of students with non-visual disabilities such as ADHD and autism.
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Choreographed and Orchestrated Video Annotation (COVA)
Choreographed and Orchestrated media refers to a relatively new concept involving different aspects of a coordinated media presentation coming from different networked devices. In this case, COVA will allow video annotations such as audio descriptions to be played from a personal device such as a smartphone, while a primary video presentation is being played on a completely separate device such as a projector in a theater.
