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

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Tue Jul 16 15:41:43 UTC 2013


Doug, I never said sighted people aren't helpful, just that some of them
have weird ideas about what blind people need.  Now, if this is not your
experience, perhaps I'd better come to Canada!
Tracy

> In all probability, the developer was sighted, but hey, we really don't
> know
> that.
>
> The fact is, I have received more positive and insightful help from those
> terrible sighted people than I've ever experienced from other totally
> blind
> folks.  I doubt that Dorothy was blind?
>
> Doug: Seeing is believing, feeling is confirmation!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their
> Own
> WearableTechnology
>
>
> :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
> : > ----- Original Message -----
> : > From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey at bellsouth.net>
> : > To: "NFB Florida List Group" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> : > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 4:29 PM
> : > Subject: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own
> : > WearableTechnology
> : >
> : >
> : > 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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> : >
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