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What influenced me this week…

Augmented Reality

Inclusive Design

User Experience

5 minutes of captioning for 5 bucks!

That sounds like a bargain to me!

Soliloquy on Fiverr.com is advertising his captioning services of your Youtube videos for just five dollars (that's U.S. dollars I presume, but still a bargain).

YouTube automatic captioning can be terrible sometimes, but fortunately you have the option to upload a text file with your audio transcription. If you want proper captions on your video but don't have the time to type in the dialogue yourself, I can transcribe it for you accurately. I will provide you with a text file that you'll upload to your YouTube account, and their speech processing algorithms will do the rest.

Hat tip to John Foliot whose tweet I noticed on Twitter and AI Media who found it for us :)

SenCity Sydney: a multi-sensory music event

SenCity is a once-in-a-lifetime international event that is finally premiering in Australia.

The event goes beyond music with all senses being stimulated including: expressive dancers, a SenseFloor, Taste sensations, Video projections, light effects, sign interpreters and hairdressers the music event transforms in a overall experience.

The event is primarily targeted at a Deaf and hard of hearing audience, but of course is also open to the hearing community to open up wider social networks for the deaf. Although many deaf can't hear the melody of music they can feel the emotion of it through their other senses – touch (vibration), sight, smell and taste.

On the dance floor at SenCity

Through the use of special techniques such as “Vibrating dance floor”, we can let deaf people feel the music the way others hear it. Therefore vibrating sensors are installed under the dance platforms and plugged into the amplifiers so that the entire dance floor responds to the frequency of the music. The lyrics are interpreted into sign language by so called “Sign-Singers”. “Visual-Jockey”and "Food Jockey" provide more positive sense impressions. Furthermore the nose of the party guest will be stimulated. The fragrance compositions of the “Aroma-Jockey” evoke similar emotions as the music does. Additionally in the Sense Chill Zone, side performances are provided, e.g. Hair dressers, Make-up artists and massages. - SenCity Sydney

SenCity
27th August 2010
Home Nighclub
Darling Harbour

You can support the event through FundBreak.

Further Reading

What influenced me this week…

Twitter powered captioning for Live streaming video

The concept of combining video and twitter feeds for recorded events was first proposed Tom Smith in February 2009[1] after experiencing Graham Linehan's BadMovieClub[2] in which at 9pm exactly on the 13th February 2009, over 2,000 Twitter users simultaneously pressed 'Play' on the film 'The Happening' and continued to 'tweet' whilst watching, creating a collective viewing experience. - Twitter Subtitling, Wikipedia

First Thoughts on iPad Potential for People with Intellectual Disabilities

An iPad, with a simple-to use interface similar to those presented by augmentative communication apps, would be a lot less expensive than single purpose AC devices or multi-function computers. - John Rochford at Clear Helper

Quote of the week

By Shane Morris. He has such a funny dry sense of humour sometimes: Q: You’ve been involved in the industry for quite some time, and seen it mature. Where do you see it going from here? A: "I think of it this way: once we were in the business of telling people their baby is ugly. Then we progressed to advising people how to make their babies more attractive. Nowadays I help companies work out what sort of baby they want, or whether they’d actually prefer an Xbox." - UX Design: What it is, What it Takes, and Where it’s Going And this just made me laugh... Do websites need to be experienced exactly the same in every browser?

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