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

[Star Gazer]

It's probably just an offshoot of the bomb sniffing application. Somebody
developed something so the human members of the bomb squad would have more
info about the bombs they were dealing with. Somebody thought of guide dogs
and the idea went from there. 
This is really no different then say a meat theremometer. People cooked for
a long long time without meat thermometers. Now they are very common. 
It's ok for you to not like the idea, it just doesn't mean the idea is
necessarily bad. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 8:59 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
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
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> 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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