[Athen] Experiences with Aira

Priest, Ione ipriest at msudenver.edu
Thu Jul 26 07:44:41 PDT 2018


Thank you all for the feedback so far! Very helpful information, as always. Is anyone able and willing to share information on what site access pricing would be (roughly)? We have a call in to Aira to get more information, but a ballpark figure may be helpful in advance of that conversation. Feel free to email me privately, also.

Ione Priest, CPACC
Accessibility Technology Manager
Access Center
Plaza 122
Metropolitan State University of Denver
ipriest at msudenver.edu
Phone: 303-615-0200
Fax: 720-778-5662
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of George Kerscher
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 8:22 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Experiences with Aira

Hi,

In addition, if the student installs teamviewer.com software, the agent can remote in to the computer and assist with accessibility issues. If it is a JAWS problem, e.g. not reading correctly, the call is charged to VFO.

Best
George


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Stores, Mary A.
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 7:44 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Experiences with Aira

Hello,

We have quite a few students using Aira on the Indianapolis campus. There has been a lot of construction, both in and out of buildings, and Aira helps tremendously in those situations. Aira is also helpful when going to campus cafeterias or Stores, because an agent can read the different menus and help students navigate through lines without bumping into other people. Aira is also helpful when watching films in class if the student can get close enough to the screen. An agent can describe the action and in some cases, rea subtitles. Stuff like that is helpful in foreign language classes.

What would be difficult is if the student has to rely on Aira in a math class, and the instructor is talking and writing on a board. Some math instructors insist that if they are going over mathematical concepts, the only way to understand them fully is to write out equations and how to solve them by hand. Aira agents might have difficulty seeing the writing, and even if they take pictures of it so they can magnify it, that takes time. It would be difficult to listen to an instructor, listen to the agent, and take notes.

One other difficulty occurs if the institution doesn't establish firm guidelines with the students. When Aira was set up for students on the Indy campus, they were given the glasses and told good luck. Any technical issues that came up they had to solve themselves. And now that the new Horizon glasses are out, since the students weren't given guidelines and the administration who originally set up Aira for the students all moved on, there's big debate about whether or not the students themselves can request the upgrade to the Horizon glasses.

Incidentally, Bryan, you mentioned how Aira can drain a cell phone's battery power. With the new Horizon glasses comes a phone which can be used with the new AI Chloe. That way your student would be able to receive phone calls and messages and the like on their own personal phones and have it as backup in case the Aira phone drains. Chloe will either open KNFB reader for you and scan documents (which is useful when instructors give out last minute handouts) or it will connect to an agent. If it's in the middle of class and the OCR didn't do so well on scanning a document, a student could use the new Aira message feature and text an agent and attach the OCR image, and the agent could text back what it was supposed to say.

Another way that students have used Aira is to check over the formatting of papers before turning them in. I think we all have been duped by auto format in Word. An agent would be able to help the student make sure the paper was in the format the student needs.

I hope this helps.

Mary


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Kluesner, Bryon
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:55 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Experiences with Aira


We had one student use it last semester and it was paid for as a monthly subscription ($89?) by a private donation to the office. The complaint the student had was it drained his cell phone battery. He is working with Aira on how to get a discounted institutional rate and plans to to talk to city mayor about making it available downtown. He did like it, except the cell phone app issue.



Bryon


Bryon Kluesner, RhD
Adaptive Technology Coordinator
Disability Resource Center
Adjunct Professor
College of Health, Education & Professional Studies
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
103 Frist Hall
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-425-5251

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> on behalf of Priest, Ione <ipriest at msudenver.edu<mailto:ipriest at msudenver.edu>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:16 PM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Experiences with Aira


Good afternoon all,



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Thank you very much.



Ione Priest, CPACC
Accessibility Technology Manager
Access Center

Plaza 122

Metropolitan State University of Denver

ipriest at msudenver.edu<mailto:ipriest at msudenver.edu>

Phone: 303-615-0200

Fax: 720-778-5662

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