<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-m_-5588322558200972106gmail-docs-internal-guid-16bac2f1-7fff-52a3-60f7-d12b4b31d830"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello all!</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My name is Ricardo Gonzalez. I'm a PhD student at Cornell Tech, Cornell University, studying how to implement new input interfaces in mobile applications for people with visual impairments. If you could share this recruitment notice through your networks I would appreciate it:</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">" Hello! Our research groups at Cornell University and the Michigan Technological University are studying the accessibility of silent speech entry for users with visual impairments, particularly whether it’s possible to use it as a means of text entry. For this first iteration, we’ve created an online website with an accessible keyboard and we’re conducting a study to gather information about our virtual prototype. We’re recruiting participants who are 18 or older and have a visual impairment to test the feasibility of our prototype and give us feedback/suggestions for improvements. All you need to participate in is to have a smartphone.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This study will be completed remotely over web-conferencing software, e.g. Zoom. </span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participation includes 3 parts: an introductory interview, the experiment where we will have you enter text while recording your actions, and a follow-up interview. In the first interview, we will ask for some basic demographics information. Then we will explain to you how to access and use our webpage, and once you are comfortable with using it, we’ll give you some prompts to enter text through our online keyboard. In the follow-up interview, we’ll ask about your experience and feedback, which we’ll use to keep improving our prototype. </span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Your identity will be kept completely anonymous if we publish the results of the study. Participation would take approximately 45 minutes total, and we would provide a $15 Amazon gift card as compensation for your time.</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you’re interested in participating, contact us at <a href="mailto:reg258@cornell.edu" target="_blank">reg258@cornell.edu</a> (Ricardo) to let us know so that we can send you the consent form and schedule a video-conferencing call! "</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you and have a great day!</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span></span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ricardo Gonzalez Penuela, <br></span></font></div>
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Cornell Tech, Cornell University<br>
2 W Loop Road, New York, NY 10044</span></font></div></div></div>