[NFBSATX] study on making picture book reading accessible

[Wendy Walker (NFB)]

Below my signature is information on a study being done in California at UC
Irvine that might be of interest to some of you.

 

Best regards,

Wendy Walker, President

NFBTX San Antonio Chapter

 

My name is Cameron Cassidy. I'm a legally blind PhD student at the
University of California, Irvine, studying technologies that support shared
picture book reading between adults and children when one is blind and the
other is sighted.

Over the next few weeks, as part of a
<https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/i-corps/about-i-corps>  National
Science Foundation I-Corps program, we are aiming to speak with 100 parents
of young children within the blind and low vision community. We want to chat
with them for 15 minutes about how they find, evaluate, and adopt
technologies (e.g., print-braille books, audiobooks) to meet their
co-reading needs. We're now 70% of the way to our goal... and running out of
time!

Could you help us spread the word amongst the San Antonio Chapter? You're
welcome to direct people to book
<https://calendar.app.google/Yrr6dT3B4GwSN7Hz8>  through Google Calendar to
schedule (preferred, since 100 interviews is a lot of scheduling) or email
me. Of course, if our work is relevant to you, feel welcome to chat with us
as well!

Our research lab usually pays by the hour for the expertise of those who are
blind. However, as required by the NSF I-Corps program, we are not permitted
to do so for these 15-minute chats.

Thank you,
Cameron Cassidy
Ph.D. Student, Informatics
University of California, Irvine

Cameron Cassidy <camcass at uci.edu>

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