I used to play with four dinosaurs. I can’t remember what they were. One was a tyrannosaurus rex and there was one with a long neck and perhaps a triceratops and a Apatosaurus. I had to give them away since we moved and I really don’t do anything with them now. Still, I wanted to preserve their memory and now, thanks to the the vOICe> it is possible for me to do just that. See thee below sets of images and soundscapes.
Dyna01
Dyna02
The foundations are being made. These are made of concrete. The columns are imbedded in the foundations. This shows a column that is a work in progress.
This is a broken wall. There is not much to see except a lot of “stuff”. Most of it is broken bricks and mud.
Brokenwall
Hello all,
I am remodeling my house. This is a superb photo opportunity for me to photograph it from its new beginning. I will be uploading a series of images relating to its construction and hope to capture it as it grows.
This is the first image, namely a plinth.
People often ask me what I use the vOICe for. Construction sites are messy places and I don’t fancy touching anything unless I have to. These images are an example of not touching something but still knowing what it is.
plinth
Australian ABC Radio National interviews Professor Amir Amedi and his team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, about the vOICe and their work.
Hear the interview at this direct link.
In addition, there is a demonstration of a virtual cane. My favorite part of the interview is Professor Amedi’s lucid explanation about the brain and the working of the vOICe.
I wish more soundscapes had been recorded during the program. Good work Ella and Lior!
This is the title of a superb article on the vOICe in the New Scientist Magazine. You can read the article here.
The article states in part:
“Not everyone is quite so impressed. For example, J. Kevin O’Regan, a psychologist at Descartes University in Paris, France, points out that the system needs time to scan an image and so lacks the immediacy of vision. “I think it’s possible with resources and time to make something much better than the vOICe,” he says.”
Dr. O’Regan, The vOICe can indeed deliver immediate feedback by using the “all at once” option under the view submenu.
I was not part of the article but I do plan to study whether the all at once option yields better results. Watch this blog for more.
Finally, congratulations to Luis Goncalves and Enrico Di Bernardo of MetaModal for the NIH study and I wish them all the very best. Next year is going to be very exciting!
I was at the NTPC training center at Delhi University this morning. I had a chance to try an old Prisma closed-circuit television camera (CCTV). My host drew some letters on a sheet of paper and placed them on the CCTV. I had my mobile phone with me and used the vOICe to gauge the shapes of the letters by pointing the phone camera at the CCTV monitor. I was successfully able to identify the shapes in most cases.
I was unable to name the letters except for the letter a which I remembered having a triangle. But that was due to my lack of practice more than anything else. Interestingly, this is the same way that I read braille. My usage of braille is not very frequent so I have to run my finger along the braille line one character at a time.
