Abstract
Be My Eyes is a company specialising in providing help to visually impaired persons using
recent advancements in technology. In this presentation, I explore their “Call a Volunteer” service on
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. This service enables hands-free accessibility for blind and low-vision
people. The user initiates a Be My Eyes’ “Call a Volunteer” experience entirely by voice command.
Saying “Hey Meta, Call a Volunteer on Be My Eyes” will connect users to a sighted volunteer who
speaks the user’s language via a one-way video, two-way audio call. Through this integration, the
volunteers see through the lens of the smart glasses to provide a real-time description to the user
through their open-ear speakers. Thus, this empirical material contributes to the theoretical
development of distributed perception between different types of agents (Due, 2021). Data is
ethnographically collected and video-recorded interactions from the person’s everyday life. Data is
analysed using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (Mondada, 2019).
Keywords: distributed perception, visual impairment, ethnomethodological CA
recent advancements in technology. In this presentation, I explore their “Call a Volunteer” service on
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. This service enables hands-free accessibility for blind and low-vision
people. The user initiates a Be My Eyes’ “Call a Volunteer” experience entirely by voice command.
Saying “Hey Meta, Call a Volunteer on Be My Eyes” will connect users to a sighted volunteer who
speaks the user’s language via a one-way video, two-way audio call. Through this integration, the
volunteers see through the lens of the smart glasses to provide a real-time description to the user
through their open-ear speakers. Thus, this empirical material contributes to the theoretical
development of distributed perception between different types of agents (Due, 2021). Data is
ethnographically collected and video-recorded interactions from the person’s everyday life. Data is
analysed using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (Mondada, 2019).
Keywords: distributed perception, visual impairment, ethnomethodological CA
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 2025 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
| Event | Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences - Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada Duration: 7 May 2025 → 10 May 2025 Conference number: 5 https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concordia/en/uncommon-senses-v/home |
Conference
| Conference | Uncommon Senses V |
|---|---|
| Number | 5 |
| Location | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada |
| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Montreal |
| Period | 07/05/2025 → 10/05/2025 |
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