iPhone app uses crowd sourcing to help the blind
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of innovative thinkers from several universities working together on a joint project to merge existing technology (the iPhone) with a real-world crowd sourcing application to help blind people make decisions about their environment, has led to VizWiz, an iPhone/Mechanical Turk application that allows a blind user to snap a photo of something, pose a question about something shown in the photograph, and then receive an answer back within seconds.