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The Panlingual Mobile Camera. CSE 490f Jonathan Pool, Neb Tadesse, Tim Wong, Luke Woods. Overview. Overall problem & solution Contextual inquiry description & results ESM description & results Representative tasks Task Scenarios Summary Q & A. The Overall Problem.
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The Panlingual Mobile Camera CSE 490f Jonathan Pool, Neb Tadesse, Tim Wong, Luke Woods
Overview • Overall problem & solution • Contextual inquiry description & results • ESM description & results • Representative tasks • Task Scenarios • Summary • Q & A
The Overall Problem • Have you ever been in a situation where you can’t understand some text? • Language barriers • Illiteracy • Vision disability
A Solution • A camera phone that: • Allows the customer to photograph text • Efficiently receives a fast explanation of the text
Contextual Inquiry Description • Three subjects in different situations: • (1) subject wearing blurring goggles to hinder vision • (2) subject amidst many non-English signs + labels • (3) subject with low English fluency • In various contexts: locations + activities
Contextual Inquiry Description • Goals: • (1) subjects’ purpose • (2) kinds of text subjects wanted to understand • (3) urgency of understanding • (4) alternative sources of understanding • (5) means of coping without understanding • (6) subjects’ text-selection strategies
ESM Description • Goals: • Determine how well users can take photographs • Clear or blurry? • Size vs distance? • Reveal how users might indicate the specific text to be understood • Determine what sort of environments people are encountering throughout the day
ESM Description • Design: • Prompt approx every hour between 8am and 9:30pm • Asked to take one or more photographs of text • Encouraged to take diverse photos • Subjects were also allowed to take any additional photographs at any time • Subjects could record any audio-visual comments
ESM Results • Not everyone takes good photos
ESM Results • Environment doesn’t always allow for good photos
Some photos contained both legible and illegible text Some users pointed towards text ESM Results • Cannot rely on the user to indicate area
Representative Tasks • (Easy) Customer looks at a road sign in a foreign language and tries to infer whether it defines a speed limit. • (Moderate) The customer wanders around a foreign bookstore looking for the philosophy section. • (Hard) The customer approaches an apartment building and wants to know whether a person is listed in the building's directory, which is written in a script that the customer doesn't know.
(1) A traveler in Germany rents a car. He comes across this sign and wants to know if he can park here legally.He wants to take a photo and annotate it, describing the info he wants to understand. Task Scenarios
(2) A person travels to China, and wants to go to a Chinese restaurant. However, the person does not understand the menu in Chinese.She takes a photo. She wants to circle several random items of her choosing for translation. Task Scenarios
(3) A person understands spoken Japanese, however he cannot read it.He wishes to hear an audio clip of this road sign.He takes a photo and requests to receive an audio translation. Task Scenarios
Task Scenario • UI Design ideas:
Summary • A device that can allow you to translate and/or understand text on the fly • Supports multiple delivery mediums: • Audio • Text • Must be fast, efficient, and easy to use.
Q & A • Questions????