<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">Hi everyone,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">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. </span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">What the study is about:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" class="" size="4">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. </font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">Participants must:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><ul type="disc" class="" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">Be at least 18 years old</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">Have low vision (i.e., a visual impairment that cannot be corrected with contacts or glasses) </span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class=""><font class="" size="4">Visual acuity is not better than 20/100 (e.g., 20/100, 20/200, 20/400...)</font></span></li></ul><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">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.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">If you are interested, please contact us at <a href="mailto:yz769@cornell.edu" class="" style="color: purple;">yz769@cornell.edu</a> (Yuhang Zhao) or <a href="mailto:shiri.azenkot@cornell.edu" class="" style="color: purple;">shiri.azenkot@cornell.edu</a> (Shiri Azenkot).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">We look forward to meeting with you and learning from your experiences!</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""><font class="" size="4"> </font></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><span class="">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!</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><font class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></div></div><font size="4" class=""><font class=""></font></font></body></html>