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From the Ted Talk by Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So these two devices, DriveGrip and SpeedStrip, are very eifftvece. But the problem is these are instructional cue devices. So this is not really freedom, right? The computer tlels you how to drive — turn left, turn right, speed up, stop. We call this the "backseat-driver problem." So we're moving away from the instructional cue dvciees, and we're now focusing more on the informational devices. A good example for this informational non-visual user interface is called AirPix. So think of it as a monitor for the blind. So it's a small tablet, has many hoels in it, and compressed air comes out, so it can actually draw images. So even though you are blind, you can put your hand over it, you can see the lanes of the road and obstacles. Actually, you can also change the fneeqrucy of the air coming out and possibly the tatmerpruee. So it's actually a multi-dimensional user interface. So here you can see the left camera, the right camera from the vehicle and how the computer inereptrts that and sdnes that information to the AirPix. For this, we're showing a simulator, a bnild person driving using the AirPix. This smiuoaltr was also very useful for tirnaing the blind drivers and also quickly testing different types of iaeds for different types of non-visual user interfaces. So basically that's how it works.

Open Cloze


So these two devices, DriveGrip and SpeedStrip, are very _________. But the problem is these are instructional cue devices. So this is not really freedom, right? The computer _____ you how to drive — turn left, turn right, speed up, stop. We call this the "backseat-driver problem." So we're moving away from the instructional cue _______, and we're now focusing more on the informational devices. A good example for this informational non-visual user interface is called AirPix. So think of it as a monitor for the blind. So it's a small tablet, has many _____ in it, and compressed air comes out, so it can actually draw images. So even though you are blind, you can put your hand over it, you can see the lanes of the road and obstacles. Actually, you can also change the _________ of the air coming out and possibly the ___________. So it's actually a multi-dimensional user interface. So here you can see the left camera, the right camera from the vehicle and how the computer __________ that and _____ that information to the AirPix. For this, we're showing a simulator, a _____ person driving using the AirPix. This _________ was also very useful for ________ the blind drivers and also quickly testing different types of _____ for different types of non-visual user interfaces. So basically that's how it works.

Solution


  1. temperature
  2. devices
  3. blind
  4. ideas
  5. interprets
  6. sends
  7. tells
  8. frequency
  9. effective
  10. holes
  11. simulator
  12. training

Original Text


So these two devices, DriveGrip and SpeedStrip, are very effective. But the problem is these are instructional cue devices. So this is not really freedom, right? The computer tells you how to drive — turn left, turn right, speed up, stop. We call this the "backseat-driver problem." So we're moving away from the instructional cue devices, and we're now focusing more on the informational devices. A good example for this informational non-visual user interface is called AirPix. So think of it as a monitor for the blind. So it's a small tablet, has many holes in it, and compressed air comes out, so it can actually draw images. So even though you are blind, you can put your hand over it, you can see the lanes of the road and obstacles. Actually, you can also change the frequency of the air coming out and possibly the temperature. So it's actually a multi-dimensional user interface. So here you can see the left camera, the right camera from the vehicle and how the computer interprets that and sends that information to the AirPix. For this, we're showing a simulator, a blind person driving using the AirPix. This simulator was also very useful for training the blind drivers and also quickly testing different types of ideas for different types of non-visual user interfaces. So basically that's how it works.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. air
  2. airpix
  3. basically
  4. blind
  5. call
  6. called
  7. camera
  8. change
  9. coming
  10. compressed
  11. computer
  12. cue
  13. devices
  14. draw
  15. drive
  16. drivegrip
  17. drivers
  18. driving
  19. effective
  20. focusing
  21. freedom
  22. frequency
  23. good
  24. hand
  25. holes
  26. ideas
  27. images
  28. information
  29. informational
  30. instructional
  31. interface
  32. interfaces
  33. interprets
  34. lanes
  35. left
  36. monitor
  37. moving
  38. obstacles
  39. person
  40. possibly
  41. problem
  42. put
  43. quickly
  44. road
  45. sends
  46. showing
  47. simulator
  48. small
  49. speed
  50. speedstrip
  51. stop
  52. tablet
  53. tells
  54. temperature
  55. testing
  56. training
  57. turn
  58. types
  59. user
  60. vehicle
  61. works