[nagdu] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own WearableTechnology

[Tracy Carcione]

I don't need my guide dog to tell me there's an obstacle in front of us,
really.  He already tells me by going around it.  I guess it would make it
more clear when he's doing his job and when he's going over to cop a
sniff, but that hardly seems worth the trouble of teaching him to use some
gadget.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like another example of
something sighted people think we need that we actually don't.
It's interesting, but to me it doesn't seem particularly useful.
Tracy

> Fascinating!
>
> Sherri
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> From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey at bellsouth.net>
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> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 4:29 PM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own
> WearableTechnology
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> Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own Wearable Technology
> Wearable computing seems to be the next frontier. The Pebble watch and
> Google Glass are being raved about, but wearable technology doesn't just
> have to be for humans. Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a system
> called FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. The
> idea is that the dog could activate a sensor that would then transmit
> either
> a verbal command into a headset or a visual command onto a screen. For
> example, a bomb sniffer dog could tell his handler what kind of bomb it
> is,
> or a rescue dog could alert someone that he found an injured person. A
> guide
> dog could tell us that there is an obstruction to our right or in front of
> us. According to the article in technology review, "In an early study, the
> researchers equipped a dog vest with an Arduino microprocessor and tested
> four different sensors that dogs could activate by biting, tugging, or
> putting their mouth nearby. The three service dogs participating in the
> test
> quickly learned to activate the sensors to set off a tone."
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