Shopping Buddy Mobile Application

购物好友移动应用程序

• 批准号: 560446-2020
• 负责人: Leaver, Chad
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=707118
• 关键词: Shopping; Buddy; Mobile; Application

Oakville based, AbleDocs Inc., is currently the global leader in text accessibility services for persons living with specialized vision-ability requirements. They wish to broaden their market reach by addressing the every-day needs for persons with low-vision. In the case of this collaboration with Seneca, they are targeting text accessibility in the context of the in-store shopping experience. AbleDocs' challenge in addressing this market need is to adapt their text accessibility technology to make retail and product information immediately visually-accessible, in-store. The intention of the proposed collaboration between AbleDocs and Seneca is to develop an app, which can transform product packaging text into accessible documents. Professor Tanvir Alam from Seneca's School of Software Design and Data Science (SDDS) will co-lead the project with Professor Monica Fontana from Seneca's School of Creative Arts & Animation (SCAA). The proposed Shopping Buddy app will work as a retail ecosystem bringing together content from manufacturers, distributors, retailers and consumer entities. This project is important to AbleDocs as its mission is to give visual access to all marginalized individuals throughout the world. The project will also provide an excellent experiential learning opportunity for the RAs; they will develop a fundamental understanding of technology requirements for accessibility and inclusivity in design, visual and user-experience. The resulting app and partnerships, which will follow the development of the initial prototype, enabling a world-wide virtuous cycle of inclusion within the retail environment.

ABLEDOCS Inc.的Oakville目前是针对具有专门视觉能力要求的人的文本可访问性服务的全球领导者。他们希望通过满足低视觉的人的日常需求来扩大自己的市场范围。对于与塞内卡（Seneca）的合作，他们将以店内购物体验的背景为目标。 ABLEDOCS在满足该市场需求方面的挑战是调整其文本可访问性技术，以使零售和产品信息立即在视觉上可访问，店内。 Abledocs和Seneca之间提议的合作的目的是开发一个应用程序，该应用程序可以将产品包装文本转换为可访问的文档。 Seneca的软件设计与数据科学学院（SDDS）的Tanvir Alam教授将与Seneca创意艺术与动画学院（SCAA）的Monica Fontana教授共同领导该项目。拟议的购物伙伴应用程序将成为零售生态系统，将制造商，分销商，零售商和消费者实体的内容汇总在一起。该项目对Abledocs很重要，因为它的使命是使世界各地的所有边缘化个人都可以视觉访问。该项目还将为RA提供出色的体验学习机会；他们将对设计，视觉和用户体验的可访问性和包容性的技术需求发展基本理解。最初的应用程序和合作伙伴关系将遵循最初的原型的开发，从而使全球范围内的良性循环在零售环境中。