{"id":161519,"date":"2023-04-04T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/developing-a-robot-that-will-help-blind-children-chat-with-sighted-friends"},"modified":"2023-04-04T00:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:25:03","slug":"developing-a-robot-that-will-help-blind-children-chat-with-sighted-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/developing-a-robot-that-will-help-blind-children-chat-with-sighted-friends","title":{"rendered":"Developing a robot that will help blind children chat with sighted friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/developing-a-robot-that-will-help-blind-children-chat-with-sighted-friends2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new accessibility-focused robot under development will allow children of mixed visual abilities to have a balanced conversation where everyone participates equally.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Interactive Technologies Institute have recently released a study on using a robot to mediate group discussions between children with mixed\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/visual+abilities\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual abilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team presented the study during the ACM\/IEEE conference this March in Stockholm, and it\u2019s now published as part of the Proceedings of the 2023 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new accessibility-focused robot under development will allow children of mixed visual abilities to have a balanced conversation where everyone participates equally. Researchers at the Interactive Technologies Institute have recently released a study on using a robot to mediate group discussions between children with mixed\u2013visual abilities. The team presented the study during the ACM\/IEEE conference [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}