Seeing AI adds a teachable tool to help blind and low-vision people find personal items
Microsoft Research described Find My Things, a Seeing AI feature that lets blind and low-vision people teach the app to recognize personal objects. The system uses audio, visual, and vibration cues to guide a user toward a selected item.
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- 1 Nov 2024
- Microsoft Research
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How scoring worksIt is a concrete accessibility use case: AI is being adapted to individual needs and daily routines instead of only broad consumer automation.
Primary research write-up, named app feature, named user community, and specific interaction model.