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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:
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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" eudora="autourl">
https://ischoolillinois.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vVmhfJViHruycS</a>
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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>
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