Help us with research to build better AI!

Data collection for Phase 1 is now closed. Thank you for your interest.

Smartphones are helping blind users explore their world. For instance,  Seeing AI uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse a picture you take with the camera. While these kinds of systems currently can recognise common items, say for example “this is a mug”, the problem is that they can’t tell whether this is your mug. Also, they don’t know of items that are important to blind or low vision people, such as a white cane. We are trying to change this but to do so we need more examples of things that are important to you. Help us!

We are looking for people who are blind to use an iPhone app to take short videos of things that are important to them. This app will allow thousands of visually impaired people to contribute imagery to help train the kinds of AI behind these smartphone apps.

We are looking for adults (18 years or older) who:

• Live in the United Kingdom
• Are blind or have low vision
• Speak English fluently
• Have an iPhone
• Do not have any cognitive impairment

Your participation would involve –

• Filling in a background survey
• Using an iPhone app to take videos of things you might want your phone to recognise

– and you’ll get a £50 Amazon voucher in appreciation of your time. You’ll also get an additional £10 for each person you refer to us and who completes the study.

We will finish collecting data by 12 July 2020.

If you are interested in participating in the study please contact Lida Theodorou at Lida.Theodorou.2@city.ac.uk.

This study has been reviewed by and received ethics clearance through the Computer Science Research Ethics Committee, City, University of London.

If you would like to complain about any aspect of the study, please contact the Secretary to the Senate Research Ethics Committee on 020 7040 3040 or via email: Anna.Ramberg.1@city.ac.uk

City, University of London is the data controller for the personal data collected for this research project. If you have any data protection concerns about this research project, please contact City’s Information Compliance Team at dataprotection@city.ac.uk