Project Ideas possibly using LSR
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Ideas for ET projects.
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Ideas for ET projects.
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Americo studied the floorplans for Sitterson and verified them by examination while producing a description of each place in the building. I built a simple prototype web server but I’m unsatisfied with its dependence on coordinates and the resulting difficulty of sorting the links in hallways into a reasonable order.
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I got an email and phone call from Rachel Magario, a blind geography graduate student at the University of Kansas. She is interested in maps for people who are blind and is specifically interested in making an accessible map of her campus. She wants something like BATS embedded in the browser. I explained to her how hard that would be with the poor support for sound and non-existent support for tactile feedback in browsers.
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Ideas for a music game for children who are blind.
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Flight simulator ideas with Shane and Matthew on 12 June 2006.
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Ideas for a maze game for Hark The Sound
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I read a nice paper about a project of the Swedish Library of Talking Books about their Flash games for kids who are visually impaired. How about a version of Hark like this? Would Flash or Java-Script be more portable?
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Look at Typing the Dead for ideas for how to make a typing tutor fun.
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I got to meet Jake and his mom. We believe some interesting switch assessible games would be a great motivator for him to learn to use his devices. Ideas we came up with include:
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Skimming in text for people who are blind or reading help for people with learning disabilities. Automatic summarization or maybe Cliff Notes merged with a book so that you can read at the summary level or down at the detailed level. How can students who are blind skim for answers to questions? Can this help people with learning disabilities? Sort of Tell what you’re going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them .