{"605248":{"#nid":"605248","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Smart Speakers Are a Great Tool for the Visually Impaired ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the \u003Cem\u003ELifehacker\u003C\/em\u003E, April 16, article, \u0026ldquo;Smart Speakers Are a Great Tool for the Visually Impaired.\u0026rdquo; The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETouchscreens have become the primary way many of us interact with the digital world, but they aren\u0026rsquo;t great options for the visually impaired. Smartphones have small displays and require precise controls, and their screens shut off after a few moments of inactivity, which makes them difficult to use if your vision isn\u0026rsquo;t great. In these instances, a smart speaker is probably a much more useful device. In a touching new essay for The Atlantic, Ian Bogost (Georgia Tech) describes the experience of teaching his blind father to use Amazon\u0026rsquo;s Echo. There\u0026rsquo;s a bit of a learning curve, like with any new technology, but his dad soon starts asking Alexa for sports scores and stock market updates. He also uses Amazon\u0026rsquo;s voice messaging feature to communicate with his son, as well as another friend who has an Echo at home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/smart-speakers-are-a-great-tool-for-the-visually-impair-1825294036\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELifehacker\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E website\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2018-04-18 15:37:56","changed_gmt":"2018-04-18 15:38:13","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Carnot ARTS","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/smart-speakers-are-a-great-tool-for-the-visually-impair-1825294036","dateline":{"date":"2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=cy9ipBQS"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"177729","name":"touchscreen"},{"id":"177730","name":"interact"},{"id":"528","name":"device"},{"id":"1752","name":"mobile"},{"id":"81501","name":"Amazon"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}