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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NFBNet-Members-List <nfbnet-members-list-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Andrews via NFBNet-Members-List<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 14, 2021 10:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: Paid opportunity to participate in a research study conducted by the University of Illinois<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><br> <br>Paid Opportunity to Participate in a Research Study <br>1. Study Title: <br>Studying tools to manage and share pictures <br>2. Study Description: <br>We are a group of researchers from University of Illinois conducting research to help blind people and people with low vision manage and share pictures to social media free of private and sensitive information. We have designed a mobile App to let users screen private and sensitive information of pictures they want to share using both artificial intelligence (AI) and human effort. <br>We hope that we could study and evaluate this tool we built by letting users try out it in real life scenarios. We want to gain research and practical insights as well as user experience feedback from people with blindness or low vision. <br>We ask people with blindness or low vision to participate in our study together with one of their sighted friends. We will divide participants into “requesters” (people with blindness or low vision) and “allies” (requesters’ sighted friends). Requesters will be asked to download a mobile App in iOS. The App will first use artificial intelligence services to detect private and sensitive information in the image and then if there's any, would suggest users transfer this image to their allies (sighted friends) for a more thorough check and blur out these sensitive parts. <br>3. Estimated time for each user/evaluator to participate in the project: <br>1 hour <br>4. How many users/evaluators would you like to have participate? <br>10 to 20 users/evaluators with blindness or low vision and one of their sighted friend or family member for each <br>5. Is there a desired demographic for the users/evaluators? <br>No specific demographic is required. However, currently we are only recruiting participants with blindness or low vision using iPhones. <br>6. Can the testing be conducted remotely, or does the user/evaluator need to travel to a specific location? <br>Yes, the testing will be conducted remotely through Zoom/ <br>7. List any special skills, and the skill level, the users/evaluators should have in order to participate: <br>The only criteria is that we are recruiting users/evaluators who use iPhones and have taken or are interested in taking pictures to share to social media. However, allies (friends or family members) can use any electronic devices to participate in the study, as long as they have access to the Internet. <br>8. Compensation <br>Yes. All participants including people with blindness and low vision as well as their sighted friends will be compensated with $20 for participating in the user study, and $10 for the exit interview. Participants will be paid up to $30 for successful completion of the whole study. In addition, participants will be paid $10 extra compensation if they refer this study to friends who also successfully completed the study. <br>9. Sign-up <br>Please use the following link to fill in the survey. We will reach out to participants upon receiving the responses. <br><a href="https://ischoolillinois.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vVmhfJViHruycS">https://ischoolillinois.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vVmhfJViHruycS</a> <br> <br>Stacie Dubnow, J.D.<br>Project Manager<br>200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230<br>410-659-9314, extension 2442 | <a href="mailto:sdubnow@nfb.org">sdubnow@nfb.org</a> <br> <br><a href="https://nfb.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=210 height=76 style='width:2.1875in;height:.7916in' id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/email/2/nfblogo.png" alt="National Federation of the Blind"></span></a><br> <br> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/nationalfederationoftheblind"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=24 height=24 style='width:.25in;height:.25in' id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/email/2/facebook.png" alt=Facebook></span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NFB_Voice"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=24 height=24 style='width:.25in;height:.25in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/email/2/twitter.png" alt=Twitter></span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/NationsBlind"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=24 height=24 style='width:.25in;height:.25in' id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/email/2/youtube.png" alt=Youtube></span></a><br> <br>The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation’s blind. Every day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want. <br> <br> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>