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The Challenge | Space Jockey
Space [B]Rails
Tools for the visual impaired to explore the amazing features of earth and space via gamification and crowd sourcing.
Concept
Space [B]Rails is a tool aimed to visual impaired people to experience and explore the amazing feels of earth and space according to satellite data through gamification and crowd sourcing.
Through several interviews conducted with Taiwanese visually impaired we gathered several insights, which led us to create Space [B]Rails to help them experience more and share with others.
Web App Front End
Exploring satellite image for visual impairment person. Visual impairment users can take a trip on satellite, or have an space adventure, whereas general public can add description/tags on satellite images. These text will then be converted to audio clips allowing visual impairment users to understand the images.
https://pjchender.github.io/NASAHack/
Web App Back-End
Giving satellite name and time received from front-end, returns the bounding rectangle of satellite image at given time. The satellite images are used to create different missions for the visually impaired to explore maps like CO, Ozon, Vegetation, etc. accross the globe.
https://github.com/Fantasycheese/SpaceJockey
Mobile App
Utilize the power of crowd sourcing to collect informative and interesting voice description and surrounding background sounds, for those visually impaired who cannot see the beauty of the earth and the wonder of the universe.
https://github.com/Fantasycheese/SpaceJockeyTourGu...
Prototype
To enhance the experience for the visually impaired, we not only have audio but also tactile experience is important from our interviews conducted with the visually impaired.
For more information see our presentation:
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.