UW News
March 12, 2010
Media Advisory: UW students present phone apps for people with disabilities
WHAT: Final presentation for CSE 481H, a senior-level project course designing accessibility tools for mobile phones running the Android platform
WHO:
- Undergraduate students registered in the course
- Richard Ladner, professor of computer science and engineering
- Members of the local blind and deaf-blind communities
WHEN: Monday, March 15, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Room 691, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
DETAILS:
Students will present and demonstrate, in a drop-in poster session, accessibility-oriented tools they built over the past quarter for mobile phones running Google’s Android platform. The five applications are:
- A daily task trainer and scheduler for people with cognitive disabilities
- “Where am I?”: A mobile application for people who are blind or have low-vision in order to find nearby people and places
- An application to determine your location, what direction you are going, and what points of interest or businesses lie ahead if you are blind, low-vision or deaf-blind
- “BrailleLearn”: Mobile games that encourage children who are blind to learn Braille
- An application that uses the phone’s camera to read characters, for people who are blind
Interpreters will be available. Light refreshments will be served.
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For more information, contact Ladner at 206-543-9347 or ladner@cs.washington.edu.
