Phd alert! BBSRC PhD project to work with me and Opteran Technologies (https://opteran.com/) -a cutting-edge biorobotics company. Let's find out how bees combine movement and vision to recognize patterns!
Travis Longcore (UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) has compiled large databases that characterize the spectral sensitivity of terrestrial wildlife species. He digitized or otherwise acquired 177 different spectral response curves that help investigate whether spectral tuning to avoid impacts from light pollution would have potential.
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers and companies from all over the world through a live video call.
I turn 45 this month, and perhaps not coincidentally have increased the Display > Scale setting on both my personal and work laptops in the past 24 hours.
And apparently there is a news release: #Vision via #sound for the #blindhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1005951 Remaining problems include the limited set of auditory icons, lack of robustness of AI-based object recognition, and inability to express non-object visual patterns.
@x42@ercanbrack 2/5 I find a future #vision in which the system #packagemanager (e.g. pacman) would only have to manage packages for the #operatingsystem and all #thirdparty#applications (and #plugins?) would be managed via #flatpak, simply put, intriguing. 😇️
On my computers, I already maintain all third party applications via Flatpak, while pacman takes care of the OS.
What shines pink and green in the most vivid 80ies colors here are actually assembled AXIOM Beta Compact enclosure ultra violet infra red light blocking (UV/IR) optical filters.
Splitting the workload: Neurons in the fly visual system perform the same computation on three different levels. The new paper from the Borst department shows that this distribution helps to filter out irrelevant information and reliably detect motion patterns.
28-Sep-2023
Researchers create first-ever map of a single animal’s early visual system
Scientists have mapped out the entire early visual system — from eyes to neurons — for a tiny parasitic wasp, the first time such a system has been reconstructed at the synaptic level for a single specimen
Together with Florian Naudet and Mark Seidenberg, I've coauthored a commentary on a 2017 paper by Le Floch and Ropars that argues for atypical visual asymmetry as a basis for dyslexia. The journal's guidelines don't allow us to include ethical issues in the comment, so we've just posted them on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/A49D0064BDA0529CC994B19DE8A432#4
Will post again when comment is published #dyslexia#vision#ethics#consent
Sad to have to miss #FITNG2023, but the fantastic Kira Ashton Benazir Neree, & Dany Olivares made it! 🎉
➡️ Benazir received a #FITNG2023
Young Investigator Award, and presents poster 1-D-35 now!
➡️ Kira is presenting poster 1-B-12, also now!
Come say hi! 👋
This is a multilingual eye-test chart circa 1907. It was designed by optometrist George Mayerle. He said it was “the result of many years of theoretical study and practical experience.”
While it’s absolutely gorgeous, the chart was designed for usability, accessibility, and inclusivity.
"Dark mode" which is so popular on #Mastodon, is extremely difficult -- even painful -- for many people with astigmatism and other common vision issues. Just sayin'.
Far too many #websites and #applications are designed and implemented by 20- or 30-somethings with no #vision issues, or any sort of #accessibility issue. Elements you need to click with nearly pixel-precision when you have fine motor control problems or alternative input devices, #dark modes with spider-thin light grey text on a black background, designers picking #fonts that render 3mm high on a screen, on and on.
Would it kill them to #test designs with actual #users?
I'm back to living after a tough experience. This time a cute bunny, another photo from the same roll as before, more material already waiting to be published! 😊