From: west9@worldnet.att.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:35:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4e036e296f5c82905d7a00562e570ab@yourdomain.dom> (raw)
As an aide to the nearly blind, I would like to design and build a Plan9 or Inferno based system that presents text one word at a time in the center of the screen in a font perhaps 25mm high. The progress of the text would be controlled by keyboard entries in the style of vi.
I am motivated to try this by having observed an elderly physician with macular degeneration use a commercial pc application that presented enlarged text as a crawler under mouse control. He was very challenged, and it seemed to me that the computer should be doing more work.
The scheme of presenting text one word at a time comes, I think, from research into computeraided speed reading at Bell Labs in the 1960's, at least that's where I remember seeing it. It was found that reading was fastest if the sequentially presented words were sized to occupy a fixed area in the center of the screen
If someone could sketch out the software development that would be required to test out this idea, I'd be much obliged.
-Tom
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 20:35 west9 [this message]
2004-01-28 22:04 ` Donald Brownlee
2004-01-29 0:41 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2004-01-29 0:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 10:45 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 13:05 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-01-29 18:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:42 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 22:51 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-01-30 15:25 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 15:46 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-01-30 1:52 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-29 14:57 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-29 17:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-29 18:40 ` Jim Choate
2004-01-30 10:03 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-01-30 5:18 ` Jack Johnson
2004-01-29 0:14 ` boyd, rounin
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