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Social Distancing Brings New Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Trends of Emerging AR
People with impaired hearing begin to navigate a world already forcefully reshaped by the pandemic.
For the deaf, new social distancing guidelines, like staying six feet from others and wearing a mask, can present particular challenges, making everyday tasks more complicated and bringing increased stress and anxiety.
Many deaf people rely on visual cues like the movement of another person’s lips. Masks that cover the mouth prevent them from effectively communicating.
Bridging Gaps:
Automatic captioning technology like Live Caption, Google’s automatic captioning system and other Speech-to-text processing technologies can be used merged with AR, in order to give you real-time transcriptions.
The concept of merged reality, integrated with automatic captioning technology, simply means that the device is integrated with the hardware to allow it to be used as a real-time application (RTA)
The technology will capture and automatically caption spoken audio on your device.
We must reimagine our world to consider this New Challenges.
The features of smart glasses can contribute to automatic captioning technology providing a much more natural experience.
Smartglasses and other wearable computer can add information alongside or to what the wearer sees in order to give real-time transcriptions.
Bear in mind that every new development brings with it new challenges.
Computer-generated captioning technology still has a long way to go, there is work to be done to protect users without compromising privacy.
The Challenges of Implementing New Technology and How to Address Concerns over data privacy:
Standards and Data Security must be Discussed addressing legal and societal issues requirements to address Ethical Issues and privacy concerns over data privacy of users of communication devices.
Embrace OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS:
You’re undoubtedly working to tick the positive impact box. But are you really making a difference? A lasting, meaningful difference that will be felt by future generations?
That’s why in AR, the boldest and most inspiring organizations will embrace OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS: sharing and even giving away their innovative solutions to our toughest shared problems.
But the first questions to ask are radically simple ones: where are we making a positive impact? Could we have an exponentially bigger impact if we shared what we’re doing? What’s stopping us?
Digital Innovation and Transformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The goal of this project is to address the issue of Social Distancing Challenges for People with impaired hearing begining to navigate a world reshaped by the pandemic, using an economical and easily reproducible setup as open source tools.
The COVID-19 outbreak is a tragedy that will have long-lasting implications and complex problems.
Complex problems are difficult to define because different people will have differing opinions about the cause, nature and extent of the problem. It is often their social complexity, rather than their technical complexity that makes complex problems so hard to address.
Problems can be difficult to solve when we only know the issue and none of the steps to fix it.
Some problems, such as definition of the sound source localization problem, description of sound sources and nearby surroundings. Words describing the sound and able to discern the location of the source of a sound. Refers to a more general problem of the origin of sound in a context.
Nonetheless, you can find solutions to simple and difficult problems alike by approaching them a particular way.
A Couple of Practical AR use Examples:
An AR arrow icon could be added to indicate the origin of sounds pointing towards the sound source. Pointing in the appropriate origin of speech .
AR sound effect icons for improved communication.
Individual spechers can be identified by a diferent text font symbol
Emotional speech (like anger and happines) can be marked by a emoji tag
Icons size or colour can be used to indicates loudnessPeople with sensory disabilities are under significant threat from the COVID-19 outbreak but quickly innovation its operating models to mitigate the impact during the crisis.
The pandemic has showcased the value of digital operating models and is likely to force many companies to speed up their digital innovation and transformation.
What we’re seeing now is that the pandemic has accelerated the rate of change much faster than many had anticipated.
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This forum highlights the fact that simple enhancements, through AR and computer interfaces could benefit those with disabilities, potentially transforming their worlds
Lets start a cooperative hackathon instead of the usual competitive event
The objective:
Take part in the race to implemente benefits to put the person before the sensory disabilities limitationsThe first prize:
Increase and share knolowledgeReady for Takeoff 🚀
Technology is changing the ways that disabled people interact with the world; perhaps more important, it’s also shifting how the world interacts with disabled people.
The Fab Lab response to COVID-19
DEAF PEOPLE FACE UNIQUE CHALLENGES AS PANDEMIC DRAGS ON
For many, gaps in communication have only worsened
https://www.theverge.com/22254591/deaf-communication-tech-access-coronavirus-isolation
Facebook Makes Multilingual Speech Recognition Model Open Source
A new open data set for multilingual speech research
A speech recognition database and training tool called Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS) as an open-source data set
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/a-new-open-data-set-for-multilingual-speech-research/
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