[New-york-news] Volunteer for a low vision research study at Cornell Tech

[Yuhang Zhao]

Hi everyone,
 
Our research group at Cornell University (NYC Campus) is studying how Smart Glasses could provide low vision people equal access to information. We are looking for volunteers to participate in a study to help us with our work! The user study will be around 2 hours and you could pick any 2 hour time window from September 1st to September 20th. 
 
What the study is about:
This study is to explore the feasibility of a mainstream commercial smart glasses platform for low vision people. We will ask participants to identify different eye charts, basic shapes, and text with different parameters (e.g., color, thickness, size) on a mainstream commercial smart glasses platform to understand users’ feedback on using smart glasses and discuss the opportunities and design guidelines for accessibility applications on this platform.  
 
Participants must:
Be at least 18 years old
Have low vision (i.e., a visual impairment that cannot be corrected with contacts or glasses) 
Visual acuity is not better than 20/100 (e.g., 20/100, 20/200, 20/400...)
 
Participants will be compensated $20 for each hour of a study session. For this two-hour study they will receive $40. If participants require assistance with transportation to the study location, we will pay for their transportation expenses up to $60.
 
If you are interested, please contact us at yz769 at cornell.edu <mailto:yz769 at cornell.edu> (Yuhang Zhao) or shiri.azenkot at cornell.edu <mailto:shiri.azenkot at cornell.edu> (Shiri Azenkot).
 
We look forward to meeting with you and learning from your experiences!
 
Attached is the consent form of our study. If you have some friends who are also interested in this study, please feel free to forward this email or ask them to contact us. Thank you so much for your help!



Yuhang Zhao
PhD Student, Enhancing Ability Lab
Information Science
Cornell Tech
Address: 111 8th Ave #302, New York, NY 1001
email: yz769 at cornell.edu <mailto:yz769 at cornell.edu>

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