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Talking-Points in the press

Today Talking-Points was covered in an article by the local news website concentrate. The article talks about our project and how it “is one of many ambitious student-led projects at the University’s unique School of Information“. Go check it out!

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Final GROCS presentation

The semester getting to an end and we are preparing to present the work that we put into Talking-Points throughout the semester at tomorrow’s GROCS Open Houseful. We are very pleased with what we accomplished and proud to be able … Continue reading

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Honorable mention for Talking-Points at the expoSItion

It has already been a couple of days but we wanted to say that our presentation at the expoSItion (see last post) was a great success. Talking-Points honorably mentioned as one out of four from the 27 student projects. You … Continue reading

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Announcement: Talking-Points will present at expoSItion

Hello everybody, we will be presenting our Talking-Points project at the School of Informatio’s expoSItion next Monday (March 17) from 12:00-2:00pm. The expoSItion is an annual event where Master students from the School of Information can present the projects that … Continue reading

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The Wrap – Or what we will have done by the end of the semester

This is a short post about what we expect the results of our project are going to be after the end of the semester. This final deliverable is called “the Wrap” within the GROCS community. We can’t really say for … Continue reading

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Client Architecture

After all our initial research we finally started working on the implementation of the Talking-Points client. We got three motivated developers (Josh Rychlinski, Travis Donggun Yoo and Peter Kretschman) working on it and hop to be able to present first … Continue reading

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What would you like to get from Talking-Points …

We had a very productive GROCS design review yesterday. We got a ton of very valuable feedback what people (in this case only sighted people) would like to get from the Talking-Points system. These are most of the things mentioned: … Continue reading

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"Wizard of Oz study"

Last week we conducted a “Wizard of Oz study” for our Talking-Points design. This is “an experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that subjects believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated or partially operated … Continue reading

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Database diagram v0.1

This is a first try of a diagram for the social database that is going to store all the location data for the Talking-Points project. The database has two main goals: 1) make it as easy, accessible and usable as … Continue reading

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Call for participants

Hello everybody, the Talking-Points team is eagerly looking for participants with blindness to help our project. We are looking for people that can help us to identify what kind of information and features blind users would really want to use. … Continue reading

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