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Art Museums Do Not Boost My Mood
From time to time, I will post short commentaries on work produced by others. I will list the work and state my reaction to it. 3 Reasons Why Visiting an Art Museum Can Boost Your Mood This post appeared on the Social Instincts blog, Psychology Today, April 19, 2022. The Social Instincts blog is a…
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Please Touch Tour at Macculloch Hall
I am glad to publicize a cool project that I worked on—the Please Touch Tour at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum in Morristown New Jersey. We selected objects for the Please Touch Tour that represented typical activities in each room of the house. An iron safe and key are in the office. China vases are in…
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Audio Description
My last post focused on alt text, image description for web sites and social media posts. In this post, I will discuss audio description for videos and performances. The Ultimate Guide to Audio Description explains it this way. “Audio description is an audio track that narrates the relevant visual information in media. Audio description assumes…
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What is Alt Text And Why Is It Important?
On February 18, 2022, the New York Times published an article that explained how blind people learned about images on web pages and in social media posts. The solution is to add brief descriptions to images that can be read aloud by screen readers. For background information, read this post. How do blind people use…
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The Sound of Tennis
During the last week of January 2022, I read several articles about a system that produced 3D sound tracking the movements of a tennis ball in motion. Action Audio transforms spatial data from the Australian Open’s real time ball monitoring technology into 3D sound. This FAQ explains how the system works. The first item on…
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