1. ET 2003 21 January 2003

2. Listening Groups Web page due 1 week after lecture Send to gb first for approval Every picture needs an “ALT” tag describing it.

3. Grading To get a B or P you need to: –Participate (show up, questions, submit links, read papers, add to discussion) –Do the homework –Do a decent project To get an A or H you need to: –Do all that (a lot) plus –A really good project

4. Books?

5. Person First http://www.modmh.state.mo.us/sikeston/p eople.htmhttp://www.modmh.state.mo.us/sikeston/p eople.htm

6. Projects Projects will all have a written report written like a conference paper Some may be mostly development Some may be entirely research/writing 1, 2, or 3 on a team. One-page pre-proposals due 30 January In class presentation at end

7. ASL  Speech on a laptop? How far are we from using a laptop to interpret ASL to speech? There are papers on recognizing ASL by processing video. Is a camera-equipped laptop powerful enough? What can we do with a camera-equipped laptop?

8. One-handed keyboards What is available? How have they been used? How does typing  speech compare to ASL  speech? How does “text messaging” change things?

9. Morse Code Input A free, easy to use Morse input system that works with any app by synthesizing keystroke events “Modern Morse Code in Rehabilitation and Education” Nice one-handed keyboard? (I claim) much better than pen-based input

10. Pop-up stomper Free, open-source tool to automagically dismiss web pop-ups. Make it easy for blind people to install and use. Might optionally announce what it killed.

11. Asynchronous UI Most UI’s are sequential –Telephone menu –XP send error dialog, etc. How might async alerts and responses improve a speech (or any) interface? E.g. Word spell checker, Emacspeak footnotes

12. Sound Awareness Help computer users who are deaf be aware of environmental sound Decorate the window border? Add a “band” to the screen? Use 2 mikes to sense direction?

13. Two-handed map interface Touch-tablet with state outline (say) Haptic device to feel local area A physical marker to leave behind?

14. Universal Access Games Maybe multiplayer “MUD”? Different players have varying abilities Maybe a computer lab of kids play together? Learn some explicit lesson but also learn about disabilities and how every can contribute.

15. Make Google better for JAWS Barb hates it. Why? How can it be better? Folks at Google are interested in accessibility.

16. Lynx with Speech? Maybe the foundation of an open-source audio web browser?

17. Screen Reader? Commercial ones are expensive Not much innovation How to make it better? E.g. learning, async interface, spatial sound, tactile feedback

18. Instant Messaging Make an IM client easy to use with JAWS Or speech enabled

19. CV meets Mobility? What does recent work on IBR and CV teach us about collision avoidance for automatic wheel chairs?

20. Recording-based Audio? Analog to Image-based rendering? How to create 3D sound environment for campus? Expert says it is too hard CV people said IBR was too hard too.

21. Traffic Sounds The “street-crossing” team will need good traffic sounds in 3D. How to get them?

22. Cheap Tactile Feedback? What can we do with cheap gamer devices?

23. Spatial Sound? What is it good for? Easy and cheap to do… Nobody does it. Adds a lot to our maps What else? Web? UI?

24. 3D Mental Models? What sort of model do children who were born blind have of the 3D world? Of how we perceive it? What sort of tools might help them understand the world, or us, better?

25. Free typing tutor Make it fun Include cool sounds Could work for sighted too Multiplatform would be GREAT

26. Zoom control Maybe with recursive number pad system? How else?

27. Speech Spell Checker How to signal? How to suggest? Spelled right but wrong part of speech?

28. PDF  MP3 Conveniently convert documents in PDF to speech in mp3 format

29. Fun with PDAs What could we do with a PDA? –UPC scanner? –Color sensor? –Currency recognizer?

30. Sounds Like Speech  Text won’t work (I claim) So Speech  What?