Re: point-and-name software (was making it hard for the blind to)

[Guest guest]

> I would like to have a hand-held device where I could enter each of my

> friends with a picture, and when someone says hello to me, I could aim my

> equipment at him or her, shoot, read the name, and say hello back-

> intelligently!

But would that help? If someone unfamiliar with prospoganasia says

hello, and you use a picture-recognition capable phone to name the

person, that would be almost the same as saying, " Please tell me who

you are; I'm faceblind. "

It would be slightly different because it may be self-explanatory as

to what you're doing, which would help. Unfortunately, it would

also suggest that you are calling up a profile in the manner of a

sales-marketing ploy -- something that would offend many people.

> Hay, people who have alzheimers (sorry for usijng person

> first- do they have an opinion on this as a group?)

I don't think that's an issue. Alzheimers is a disability and does

not have substantial cultural aspects to it. People with Alzheimers

wouldn't choose to be that way, AFAIK.

- s0

[Guest guest]

Stan,

 

I routinely tell everyone about my having prosopagnosia.  Also, everyone in my

little book would have their picture taken by me, with their consent, in the

first place.  That is the whole point:  only consenting people get in it! 

 

I did not choose to be faceblind, anymore than someone with Alzheimers would

choose that- though admittedly, there are acquired forms of it that can happen

with aging.  Mine is developmental (i.e. I was born that way). 

 

AFAIK?  You got me on that one!

 

Marketing?  I would detest that too, Stan.  I am with you on that.

 

> I would like to have a hand-held device where I could enter each of my

> friends with a picture, and when someone says hello to me, I could aim my

> equipment at him or her, shoot, read the name, and say hello back-

> intelligently!

But would that help? If someone unfamiliar with prospoganasia says

hello, and you use a picture-recognition capable phone to name the

person, that would be almost the same as saying, " Please tell me who

you are; I'm faceblind. "

It would be slightly different because it may be self-explanatory as

to what you're doing, which would help. Unfortunately, it would

also suggest that you are calling up a profile in the manner of a

sales-marketing ploy -- something that would offend many people.

> Hay, people who have alzheimers (sorry for usijng person

> first- do they have an opinion on this as a group?)

I don't think that's an issue. Alzheimers is a disability and does

not have substantial cultural aspects to it. People with Alzheimers

wouldn't choose to be that way, AFAIK.

- s0

[Guest guest]

2008/11/24 Princess :

> AFAIK? You got me on that one!

As Far As I Know.

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ is a good site to check out when

you're bewlidered by such things.

Ruth