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 Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 01:41 Post subject: "Games with a purpose" |
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I was going through my daily blogs when I saw this on Dr. Dobbs:
"One of my dreams has always been to win a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." Of course, to win the grant you first have to be a genius, which means that you have to be able to pass classes like calculus and physics, among others. In other words, you have to be smart. Sigh.
The second criteria for winning a MacArthur Foundation grant is that you have to have good ideas; that is, applying your "genius" to something (hopefully) practical. By both measures, Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist, is deserving of one of this year's genius grants.
What qualified von Ahn as a MacArthur recipient is an online, multi-player game he created that also makes the Internet more accessible to the visually impaired. The game, called Phetch, is an Internet scavenger hunt in which players use a search engine to look for images that fit certain descriptions. In the process, they produce and verify captions for unlabeled images from the Web. These captions can then be used to enhance the Web-browsing experience of blind people.
Phetch is one of several "games with a purpose" that von Ahn has developed. The first such game, The ESP Game produced key words for images that could be used to aid image searches. Peekaboom, produces images with objects labeled and highlighted in a way that could be used to train computer vision systems.."
Here are the links to these "games" :
http://www.espgame.org/
http://www.peekaboom.org/
http://www.peekaboom.org/phetch
I dont know if these qualify as videogames per se, but considering that we have games like Myst,t hese can fall in the same genre. And you are actually helping research by playing these...wow!!!
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 03:55 Post subject: |
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wow
they're supposedly for helping visually impaired people use the internet, but their OWN PAGE is totally incompatible for such use
putting crucial instruction text in IMAGES, with nonstandard fonts, AND missing all ALT tags(designed primarily for this purpose, to tell what is in the image when it can't be viewed, and are a standard requirement these days), so that no kind of accessibility parser can read it, and will be a huge blind spot for any visually impaired person accessing it
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 05:30 Post subject: |
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| s_hole wrote: | er
wow
they're supposedly for helping visually impaired people use the internet, but their OWN PAGE is totally incompatible for such use
putting crucial instruction text in IMAGES, with nonstandard fonts, AND missing all ALT tags(designed primarily for this purpose, to tell what is in the image when it can't be viewed, and are a standard requirement these days), so that no kind of accessibility parser can read it, and will be a huge blind spot for any visually impaired person accessing it |
Oh the irony! 
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