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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheri Albers, outreach specialist, LightHouse\"]‘It’s about time. The disability community has been squashed for so, so long.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>LightHouse workers leading the union campaign hope joining the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 29 will improve pay equity and boost job security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time. The disability community has been squashed for so, so long,” said Sheri Albers, an outreach specialist at LightHouse. “It takes a lot of strength and courage to stand up and speak out so we can be heard. This here is the vehicle to the nth degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11961690 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A modern-looking building with the words \"Lighthouse\" written over the doorway.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pass by LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco on Market Street on Sept. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LightHouse, which has a headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco, provides education, training, and other services for roughly 3,000 residents annually. Its roots can be traced to more than a century ago when a group of women established the Reading Room for the Blind in the basement of the San Francisco Public Library. LightHouse now has five locations across Northern California, and in 2015 it received a $125 million donation, one of the largest single gifts ever given to a blindness organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the nonprofit’s staff are drawn in by the organization’s mission to promote independence, equality and self-reliance for people who are blind or have low vision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Divina Carlson, braille instructor, LightHouse\"]‘Just value the experience that we bring to the agency, and the loyalty and dedication. We want equity for our workers in terms of salary, benefits, and all the good things that unions provide.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Albers, who has retinitis pigmentosa and did not receive training around blindness until age 40, said she has invested “her entire being” into the agency she joined a few years back. She had been living in Ohio in 2019 when she heard the then-CEO of LightHouse speak at a national conference and was so enamored by “the positive blind philosophy” that she quit her job. She left her home, family, and friends, determined to work at LightHouse. Six months later, she was working at LightHouse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albers said the organization has changed dramatically since then, and she’s seen too many talented staff let go or leave for better positions elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If I were let go today, I don’t know when and where and how easy it would be for me to get another job,” Albers said. “And I’ve worked hard to get where I am. To know that just at will, I could be let go? That scares me a lot because I’ve seen it happen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/removing-obstacles-for-disabled-workers-would-strengthen-the-u-s-labor-market/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Layoffs can hit people with disabilities particularly hard.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> During the mass layoffs felt during the start of the pandemic, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/nyregion/workers-disabilities-unemployment-covid.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">people with disabilities represented a disproportionate share\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of people who lost their jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns about job stability and the organization’s future led LightHouse staff to seek voluntary recognition from management in September, writing in a letter to Chief Executive Director Sharon Giovinazzo that unionizing would allow staff a voice in shaping the organization’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11964236,news_11961743,news_11963717\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We believe that all LightHouse employees — from factory workers to executive leadership — should receive equal treatment,” the letter reads. “Today, we reflect upon the words of Helen Keller, who wrote, ‘Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.’ Together, we are claiming our collective voice and exercising our legal right to unionize and create a LightHouse, United.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Giovinazzo, who became CEO of LightHouse last October, said she is committed to honoring the results of the union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been actively engaged in measures to reinvigorate our workforce and chart a new trajectory that will secure a robust and sustainable future for LightHouse,” Giovinazzo said. “I can assure you that these measures have and will continue to reflect my commitment to social justice and workers’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to job security, workers also want to see more pay equity and compensation that rewards longevity within the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Divina Carlson, a braille teacher, has worked at LightHouse for the last three decades. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just value the experience that we bring to the agency and the loyalty and dedication,” Carlson said. “We want equity for our workers in terms of salary, benefits, and all the good things that unions provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with short hair stands in front of a building wearing a LIGHTHOUSE shirt, looking to the side away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Divina Carlson, a braille instructor, stands outside LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired on Market Street in San Francisco on Sept. 14, 2023. Carlson and fellow employees are working to form a union at the organization. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several other mission-driven nonprofits in the Bay Area have unionized over the last two years, including Compass Family Services and the Glide Foundation in San Francisco. Workers at the Alameda County Community Food Bank also announced their move to unionize earlier this month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Welte, a senior Accessible Media and Braille Specialist at LightHouse, said unionizing at an agency with so many blind employees and blind people in leadership positions sends a powerful message to other workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It emphasizes and affirms the fundamental equality of people who are blind with people who are sighted in whatever level we are in,” Welte said. “I think that sets a wonderful example throughout the country that this is how things can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>October 25: An earlier version of this story included the incorrect date for the vote on unionizing. This story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If successful, LightHouse organizers say the nonprofit would be the first organization serving people who are blind or visually impaired to unionize in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1698250394,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1033},"headData":{"title":"'It's About Time': Workers at LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired to Vote on Unionizing | KQED","description":"If successful, LightHouse organizers say the nonprofit would be the first organization serving people who are blind or visually impaired to unionize in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'It's About Time': Workers at LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired to Vote on Unionizing","datePublished":"2023-10-25T11:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-25T16:13:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11965152/its-about-time-workers-at-lighthouse-for-the-blind-and-visually-impaired-to-vote-on-unionizing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired are set to vote today, Oct. 25, on whether to form a union. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If successful, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">organizers say the nonprofit would be the first organization serving people who are blind or visually impaired to unionize in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s about time. The disability community has been squashed for so, so long.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sheri Albers, outreach specialist, LightHouse","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>LightHouse workers leading the union campaign hope joining the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 29 will improve pay equity and boost job security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time. The disability community has been squashed for so, so long,” said Sheri Albers, an outreach specialist at LightHouse. “It takes a lot of strength and courage to stand up and speak out so we can be heard. This here is the vehicle to the nth degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11961690 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A modern-looking building with the words \"Lighthouse\" written over the doorway.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230914-LighthouseUnion-013-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People pass by LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco on Market Street on Sept. 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LightHouse, which has a headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco, provides education, training, and other services for roughly 3,000 residents annually. Its roots can be traced to more than a century ago when a group of women established the Reading Room for the Blind in the basement of the San Francisco Public Library. LightHouse now has five locations across Northern California, and in 2015 it received a $125 million donation, one of the largest single gifts ever given to a blindness organization. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the nonprofit’s staff are drawn in by the organization’s mission to promote independence, equality and self-reliance for people who are blind or have low vision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Just value the experience that we bring to the agency, and the loyalty and dedication. We want equity for our workers in terms of salary, benefits, and all the good things that unions provide.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Divina Carlson, braille instructor, LightHouse","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Albers, who has retinitis pigmentosa and did not receive training around blindness until age 40, said she has invested “her entire being” into the agency she joined a few years back. She had been living in Ohio in 2019 when she heard the then-CEO of LightHouse speak at a national conference and was so enamored by “the positive blind philosophy” that she quit her job. She left her home, family, and friends, determined to work at LightHouse. Six months later, she was working at LightHouse. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Albers said the organization has changed dramatically since then, and she’s seen too many talented staff let go or leave for better positions elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If I were let go today, I don’t know when and where and how easy it would be for me to get another job,” Albers said. “And I’ve worked hard to get where I am. To know that just at will, I could be let go? That scares me a lot because I’ve seen it happen.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/article/removing-obstacles-for-disabled-workers-would-strengthen-the-u-s-labor-market/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Layoffs can hit people with disabilities particularly hard.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> During the mass layoffs felt during the start of the pandemic, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/nyregion/workers-disabilities-unemployment-covid.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">people with disabilities represented a disproportionate share\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of people who lost their jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns about job stability and the organization’s future led LightHouse staff to seek voluntary recognition from management in September, writing in a letter to Chief Executive Director Sharon Giovinazzo that unionizing would allow staff a voice in shaping the organization’s policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11964236,news_11961743,news_11963717"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We believe that all LightHouse employees — from factory workers to executive leadership — should receive equal treatment,” the letter reads. “Today, we reflect upon the words of Helen Keller, who wrote, ‘Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.’ Together, we are claiming our collective voice and exercising our legal right to unionize and create a LightHouse, United.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, Giovinazzo, who became CEO of LightHouse last October, said she is committed to honoring the results of the union election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been actively engaged in measures to reinvigorate our workforce and chart a new trajectory that will secure a robust and sustainable future for LightHouse,” Giovinazzo said. “I can assure you that these measures have and will continue to reflect my commitment to social justice and workers’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to job security, workers also want to see more pay equity and compensation that rewards longevity within the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Divina Carlson, a braille teacher, has worked at LightHouse for the last three decades. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just value the experience that we bring to the agency and the loyalty and dedication,” Carlson said. “We want equity for our workers in terms of salary, benefits, and all the good things that unions provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian woman with short hair stands in front of a building wearing a LIGHTHOUSE shirt, looking to the side away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230914-LighthouseUnion-003-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Divina Carlson, a braille instructor, stands outside LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired on Market Street in San Francisco on Sept. 14, 2023. Carlson and fellow employees are working to form a union at the organization. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several other mission-driven nonprofits in the Bay Area have unionized over the last two years, including Compass Family Services and the Glide Foundation in San Francisco. Workers at the Alameda County Community Food Bank also announced their move to unionize earlier this month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Welte, a senior Accessible Media and Braille Specialist at LightHouse, said unionizing at an agency with so many blind employees and blind people in leadership positions sends a powerful message to other workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It emphasizes and affirms the fundamental equality of people who are blind with people who are sighted in whatever level we are in,” Welte said. “I think that sets a wonderful example throughout the country that this is how things can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>October 25: An earlier version of this story included the incorrect date for the vote on unionizing. 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That requires ingenuity and a fair bit of tinkering — which comes very naturally to Noel Runyan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Runyan developed a gun sight that vibrates when it's pointed at the target. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Runyan is an engineer by training and isn't afraid to take on any challenge. After losing his sight, he has built everything from an electric Jacob's ladder to a vibrating gun sight so he can shoot targets at a local shooting range. He has also set up a workshop to polish rocks, and he makes small sculptures in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Runyan builds sculptures out of rocks and old computer parts. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">The World According to Sound podcast\u003c/a>. They’re partnering with the \u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a> in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich way blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/\"> California Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This engineer and 'tinkerer' can't see the objects he creates with his eyes, but he can feel their beauty through his fingertips. 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That requires ingenuity and a fair bit of tinkering — which comes very naturally to Noel Runyan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778564\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Target-Shooting-e1570483334111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Runyan developed a gun sight that vibrates when it's pointed at the target. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Runyan is an engineer by training and isn't afraid to take on any challenge. After losing his sight, he has built everything from an electric Jacob's ladder to a vibrating gun sight so he can shoot targets at a local shooting range. He has also set up a workshop to polish rocks, and he makes small sculptures in his spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Noel-Critters.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noel Runyan builds sculptures out of rocks and old computer parts. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">The World According to Sound podcast\u003c/a>. 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A small nick can show where a crab attacked. Growth lines tell how fast it grew. The spiral structure lets you feel how the creature burrowed into sand. Through touch alone, Vermeij can identify a shell, place it in time, and in some cases, determine if it is an entirely new species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollusks have been around for over 500 million years. Each shell helps Vermeij better understand how they evolved — the battles between predators and prey, adaptations and the struggle for survival. That evolutionary history provides insight on human history. For example, Vermeij has found that for mollusks, periods of population expansion — kind of like one that humans are going through right now — only last a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years he has amassed a collection of thousands of shells, which he keeps on hand at his UC Davis office. 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A small nick can show where a crab attacked. Growth lines tell how fast it grew. The spiral structure lets you feel how the creature burrowed into sand. Through touch alone, Vermeij can identify a shell, place it in time, and in some cases, determine if it is an entirely new species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollusks have been around for over 500 million years. Each shell helps Vermeij better understand how they evolved — the battles between predators and prey, adaptations and the struggle for survival. That evolutionary history provides insight on human history. For example, Vermeij has found that for mollusks, periods of population expansion — kind of like one that humans are going through right now — only last a short time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years he has amassed a collection of thousands of shells, which he keeps on hand at his UC Davis office. 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Along the way, we explore what it’s like to experience the world using senses beyond vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11778295/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-sound-to-keep-her-hives-happy","authors":["236"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457"],"tags":["news_26776","news_18826","news_21268","news_22018","news_28233"],"featImg":"news_11778063","label":"source_news_11778295"},"news_11777723":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11777723","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11777723","score":null,"sort":[1570226401000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy","title":"Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy","publishDate":1570226401,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold,” said Aerial Gilbert, an avid beekeeper in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you want to hear, she said, is a calm steady buzz. That indicates that everything in the hive is going smoothly. Gilbert tends to three beehives on her back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert went blind in 1988, beekeeping was one of the hobbies she figured she’d have to give up. But in the years since, she has found ways to do the things she used to before losing her sight. And that has meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual,” Gilbert said. “Now it’s the other senses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bees Came in the Mail — With the Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is in her early 60s, but looks younger. She has a crop of black hair and an athletic frame. She used to be a nurse, and with the decisive yet gentle way she moves her hands, you sense she was good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilbert doesn’t hesitate to open the hives in her backyard and reach down into the humming mass of thousands of bees. Her fingers softly brush against their bodies, and they don’t seem to mind. She calls the bees her “girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was 10, a swarm of bees flew into her backyard looking for a new home. Hundreds of thousands of bees coalesced in a big buzzing ball on a tree. And they stayed, humming in a giant mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold.'[/pullquote]Gilbert’s grandfather remembered the name of a local beekeeper and gave him a call. He said he’d be happy to have the bees. Gilbert watched the beekeeper walk calmly over to the giant blob of bees and scoop them up with his bare hands. He carried the swarm back to his car and left. Gilbert was mesmerized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was a junior in high school, her parents finally capitulated to her demand for her own hive. She ordered her first bees from Sears and Roebuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in the mail, along with the hive,” she said. “The postman was terrified. He got to the door and my mom was there, and he just shoved them in her face and said, ‘These your bees, lady?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time for Gilbert to get used to being around bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started beekeeping I was afraid of them,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would gear up in a white suit with big thick gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's so much visual information you get by looking at the honeycomb and the brood nest,” Gilbert said. “I didn't think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Lost in an Instant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert lost her vision in an instant. After working the night shift at Marin General Hospital in 1988, she stopped at a pharmacy to buy some eye drops. They had been tampered with, filled with drain cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt sorry for myself. I was afraid of everything. I kind of closed myself down to ‘you might as well be dead,’ ” she said. “I didn't think I could do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a long process of healing and realizing she wouldn’t get her vision back, not even some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ... woke up one day and started projecting out what my life would be like because going in the direction I was going wasn’t working,” Gilbert said. “I had always been very active. Now I was going to have a really boring life if I didn’t do something to change this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual. Now it’s the other senses.'[/pullquote]There isn’t much information about the tampering. Gilbert settled with the company that made the eye drops and, as part of the deal, she isn’t supposed to go into detail about it with the media. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-04-mn-366-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> ran a short story about the tampering. It says, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The FBI and the federal Food and Drug Administration are probing an incident in which a nurse was blinded by eye drops contaminated with a caustic chemical. “Her left eye looks like it melted and her right eye looks like it’s covered with white glue,” said Richard Critchlow, an attorney for Gilbert Van Zee Miller, 34, of Fairfax in Marin County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said her marriage ended when she lost her sight, and she couldn’t work as a nurse anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital gave her a job developing X-rays. She said that was the only place they were comfortable having a blind person work. Gilbert would sit in a small dark room all day, developing film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she was in despair. After six months it reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made the decision, no more feeling sorry for myself,” Gilbert said, “No more hiding, no more being afraid because I am allowing whoever this person was to still hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then went to the state school for the blind in Albany, living there for six months and learning braille, how to orient herself and daily living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot of basically the tricks of being blind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You Can Hear the Bees' Waggle Dance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, a friend had some hives she needed someone to look after. She asked Gilbert if she could. At first Gilbert hesitated, but she decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle. You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.'[/pullquote]As soon as the hives arrived, Gilbert was relieved. She was ecstatic to have bees back in her life. And she realized that much of the information about the bees she had gathered before with her eyes, she could now gather with her ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever Gilbert is out working on the hives, she is listening to them, keeping tabs on how they sound. She also bought some microphones to make recordings inside the hive. Those recordings give her an audio snapshot of the bees’ condition and more specific insight into what’s happening inside the hives. She can hear the waggle dance, which is the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can Gilbert hear the dance, she has started to notice variations in the sound depending on where the pollen is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle,” Gilbert said. “You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='bees' label='Related Coverage']Getting back to beekeeping was a triumph for Gilbert, but that’s just one part of her life: She fell in love again and remarried. She has worked at a nonprofit called Guide Dogs for the Blind, was an active volunteer and has traveled extensively. It’s been a full life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Gilbert donated one of her kidneys to a friend. The friend recovered, but the surgery didn’t go well for Gilbert: She suffered a rare complication that caused her remaining kidney to start failing. Gilbert has managed it for years, but now, she needs someone to donate a kidney to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert has had to spend a lot of time at home because of her health, and has been kept from many of the things she loves, like rowing. She has managed to continue taking care of her hives, and after losing bees once in her life, she doesn't want to go without them ever again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Entire Democratic Process Unfolding in a Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is not the first blind person to take an interest in bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma']'They came in the mail, along with the hive ... the postman was terrified.'[/pullquote]Swiss entomologist Francois Huber started losing his sight at age 15. In the 18th century, he made major discoveries about the lives of bees. He proved that bees use their antennae to communicate and that queens mate in the air. And he described how male drone bees — worker bees responsible for mating with the queen — were killed at the end of each summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who are blind aren’t the only one listening to bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Tom Seeley at Cornell University are recording them to better understand their behavior. Seeley wrote a book called “Honeybee Democracy” that’s about the decision-making process inside a hive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeley said you can listen to an entire democratic process unfolding inside a hive: You can hear the high-pitched buzz of worker bees telling the queen it’s time to fly to a new home. There are short, high-pitched bursts when a bee disagrees with some decision inside a hive and wants to vote against doing it. And you can hear the waggle dance that Gilbert has recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert’s life is now filled with the beauty and intricacy of all these sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \"The World According to Sound\" podcast. They’re partnering with the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich way blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"When Aerial Gilbert went blind, beekeeping was something she figured she’d have to give up. 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That indicates that everything in the hive is going smoothly. Gilbert tends to three beehives on her back patio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert went blind in 1988, beekeeping was one of the hobbies she figured she’d have to give up. But in the years since, she has found ways to do the things she used to before losing her sight. And that has meant relying a lot more on the power of sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual,” Gilbert said. “Now it’s the other senses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bees Came in the Mail — With the Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is in her early 60s, but looks younger. She has a crop of black hair and an athletic frame. She used to be a nurse, and with the decisive yet gentle way she moves her hands, you sense she was good at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39378_beekeeper3-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilbert doesn’t hesitate to open the hives in her backyard and reach down into the humming mass of thousands of bees. Her fingers softly brush against their bodies, and they don’t seem to mind. She calls the bees her “girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was 10, a swarm of bees flew into her backyard looking for a new home. Hundreds of thousands of bees coalesced in a big buzzing ball on a tree. And they stayed, humming in a giant mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I can hear how the bees are behaving — if they’re agitated, if there are other bees trying to get in the hive, or if it’s too crowded or too hot or too cold.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gilbert’s grandfather remembered the name of a local beekeeper and gave him a call. He said he’d be happy to have the bees. Gilbert watched the beekeeper walk calmly over to the giant blob of bees and scoop them up with his bare hands. He carried the swarm back to his car and left. Gilbert was mesmerized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Gilbert was a junior in high school, her parents finally capitulated to her demand for her own hive. She ordered her first bees from Sears and Roebuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in the mail, along with the hive,” she said. “The postman was terrified. He got to the door and my mom was there, and he just shoved them in her face and said, ‘These your bees, lady?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a long time for Gilbert to get used to being around bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first started beekeeping I was afraid of them,” Gilbert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would gear up in a white suit with big thick gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's so much visual information you get by looking at the honeycomb and the brood nest,” Gilbert said. “I didn't think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vision Lost in an Instant\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert lost her vision in an instant. After working the night shift at Marin General Hospital in 1988, she stopped at a pharmacy to buy some eye drops. They had been tampered with, filled with drain cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39377_beekeeper1-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial Gilbert in Petaluma on July 7, 2016. \u003ccite>(Crissy Pascual/Argus-Courier Staff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt sorry for myself. I was afraid of everything. I kind of closed myself down to ‘you might as well be dead,’ ” she said. “I didn't think I could do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a long process of healing and realizing she wouldn’t get her vision back, not even some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ... woke up one day and started projecting out what my life would be like because going in the direction I was going wasn’t working,” Gilbert said. “I had always been very active. Now I was going to have a really boring life if I didn’t do something to change this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When I worked with my bees, the information I was paying attention to was visual. Now it’s the other senses.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There isn’t much information about the tampering. Gilbert settled with the company that made the eye drops and, as part of the deal, she isn’t supposed to go into detail about it with the media. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-04-mn-366-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> ran a short story about the tampering. It says, in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The FBI and the federal Food and Drug Administration are probing an incident in which a nurse was blinded by eye drops contaminated with a caustic chemical. “Her left eye looks like it melted and her right eye looks like it’s covered with white glue,” said Richard Critchlow, an attorney for Gilbert Van Zee Miller, 34, of Fairfax in Marin County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said her marriage ended when she lost her sight, and she couldn’t work as a nurse anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital gave her a job developing X-rays. She said that was the only place they were comfortable having a blind person work. Gilbert would sit in a small dark room all day, developing film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, she was in despair. After six months it reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made the decision, no more feeling sorry for myself,” Gilbert said, “No more hiding, no more being afraid because I am allowing whoever this person was to still hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then went to the state school for the blind in Albany, living there for six months and learning braille, how to orient herself and daily living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned a lot of basically the tricks of being blind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You Can Hear the Bees' Waggle Dance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, a friend had some hives she needed someone to look after. She asked Gilbert if she could. At first Gilbert hesitated, but she decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle. You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As soon as the hives arrived, Gilbert was relieved. She was ecstatic to have bees back in her life. And she realized that much of the information about the bees she had gathered before with her eyes, she could now gather with her ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever Gilbert is out working on the hives, she is listening to them, keeping tabs on how they sound. She also bought some microphones to make recordings inside the hive. Those recordings give her an audio snapshot of the bees’ condition and more specific insight into what’s happening inside the hives. She can hear the waggle dance, which is the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only can Gilbert hear the dance, she has started to notice variations in the sound depending on where the pollen is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance, it kind of happens in a little circle,” Gilbert said. “You’ll hear ‘bzzz bzzz bzzz,’ and it’s different patterns depending on how far away the pollen is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"bees","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Getting back to beekeeping was a triumph for Gilbert, but that’s just one part of her life: She fell in love again and remarried. She has worked at a nonprofit called Guide Dogs for the Blind, was an active volunteer and has traveled extensively. It’s been a full life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, Gilbert donated one of her kidneys to a friend. The friend recovered, but the surgery didn’t go well for Gilbert: She suffered a rare complication that caused her remaining kidney to start failing. Gilbert has managed it for years, but now, she needs someone to donate a kidney to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert has had to spend a lot of time at home because of her health, and has been kept from many of the things she loves, like rowing. She has managed to continue taking care of her hives, and after losing bees once in her life, she doesn't want to go without them ever again.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Entire Democratic Process Unfolding in a Hive\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is not the first blind person to take an interest in bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They came in the mail, along with the hive ... the postman was terrified.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aerial Gilbert, a blind beekeeper in Petaluma","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Swiss entomologist Francois Huber started losing his sight at age 15. In the 18th century, he made major discoveries about the lives of bees. He proved that bees use their antennae to communicate and that queens mate in the air. And he described how male drone bees — worker bees responsible for mating with the queen — were killed at the end of each summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who are blind aren’t the only one listening to bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Tom Seeley at Cornell University are recording them to better understand their behavior. Seeley wrote a book called “Honeybee Democracy” that’s about the decision-making process inside a hive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeley said you can listen to an entire democratic process unfolding inside a hive: You can hear the high-pitched buzz of worker bees telling the queen it’s time to fly to a new home. There are short, high-pitched bursts when a bee disagrees with some decision inside a hive and wants to vote against doing it. And you can hear the waggle dance that Gilbert has recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert’s life is now filled with the beauty and intricacy of all these sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to us from Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of \"The World According to Sound\" podcast. They’re partnering with the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich way blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy","authors":["253"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_26776","news_2199","news_21855","news_18826","news_25962","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11778051","label":"news_72"},"news_11749650":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11749650","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11749650","score":null,"sort":[1559066450000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"blind-since-birth-this-petaluma-man-now-designs-how-products-sound","title":"Hoby Wedler Thinks About How Your Water Bottle Sounds","publishDate":1559066450,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Almost every product that you interact with has been designed to have a particular look, but also a particular sound. Think of the pop of a Pringles can or the snap of a Snapple cap. When companies need to design the sound of their products, they turn to a sensory consultant, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.senspointdesign.com/our-story\">Hoby Wedler\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedler lives in Petaluma and has been blind since birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've not had vision ever, but I've used my other four senses a lot to just sort of engage and understand the world around me,\" Wedler says. \"I have a sonic memory and I memorize sounds and how things sound when I'm around them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He invited Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett from the podcast, \u003ci>The World According to Sound\u003c/i>, to his house for a sonic demonstration of the kinds of sounds that he spends hours thinking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve got a chance, when you hit that play button above, you should really listen to this story with headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of the podcast \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">\u003ci>The World According to Sound\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. They’re teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a> in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich ways blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sensory consultants like Hoby Wedler help companies design how their products sound.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1570894822,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":230},"headData":{"title":"Hoby Wedler Thinks About How Your Water Bottle Sounds | KQED","description":"Sensory consultants like Hoby Wedler help companies design how their products sound.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Hoby Wedler Thinks About How Your Water Bottle Sounds","datePublished":"2019-05-28T18:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2019-10-12T15:40:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11749650 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11749650","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/28/blind-since-birth-this-petaluma-man-now-designs-how-products-sound/","disqusTitle":"Hoby Wedler Thinks About How Your Water Bottle Sounds","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/05/WATSHowProductsSound.mp3","audioTrackLength":352,"path":"/news/11749650/blind-since-birth-this-petaluma-man-now-designs-how-products-sound","audioDuration":351000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Almost every product that you interact with has been designed to have a particular look, but also a particular sound. Think of the pop of a Pringles can or the snap of a Snapple cap. When companies need to design the sound of their products, they turn to a sensory consultant, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.senspointdesign.com/our-story\">Hoby Wedler\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedler lives in Petaluma and has been blind since birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've not had vision ever, but I've used my other four senses a lot to just sort of engage and understand the world around me,\" Wedler says. \"I have a sonic memory and I memorize sounds and how things sound when I'm around them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He invited Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett from the podcast, \u003ci>The World According to Sound\u003c/i>, to his house for a sonic demonstration of the kinds of sounds that he spends hours thinking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve got a chance, when you hit that play button above, you should really listen to this story with headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a series by Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett of the podcast \u003ca href=\"http://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/\">\u003ci>The World According to Sound\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. They’re teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a> in San Francisco to help us reimagine California in the rich ways blind people experience it every day. The project has additional support from California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11749650/blind-since-birth-this-petaluma-man-now-designs-how-products-sound","authors":["253"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_21855","news_18826","news_25962","news_20691","news_19928"],"featImg":"news_11749654","label":"news_72"},"futureofyou_418097":{"type":"posts","id":"futureofyou_418097","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"futureofyou","id":"418097","score":null,"sort":[1499877201000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"google-glass-feed-connects-the-blind-with-remote-human-guides","title":"Through Google Glass, Remote Helper Sees What Blind Person Can't","publishDate":1499877201,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Future of You | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The first thing I do is put on Google Glass, its tiny camera situated over my right eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A MiFi — a personal wireless hotspot — goes into my pocket. I pop in earbuds connected to a smartphone. Then I close my eyes. I am trying to simulate, for this demonstration, what it's like to navigate without being able to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Finding a cafe, describing a museum exhibit, or helping someone fold origami -- a new service guides blind people by connecting them with live agents who view their surroundings through smartglasses like Google Glass.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All geared up, I am now ready for my test run. \u003ca href=\"https://aira.io/#service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aira\u003c/a>, based in San Diego, is a paid service that offers \"visual interpretation\" for the blind and visually impaired. With a smartphone app, Aira users connect with a remote agent who sees through any one of four types of smartglasses and describes the client's environment to her. Employees say the service, which became available in March, is like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/onstar/480471/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #24890d\">OnStar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"m-6819587429447741435apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>for the blind — or maybe like having your own personal “\u003ca href=\"http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Chloe_O%27Brian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #24890d\">Chloe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>,” the intelligence analyst on the TV show \"24\" who often remotely assists hero Jack Bauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I summon \u003cem>my\u003c/em> Chloe using the Aira interface, which consists of a giant blue button. All I have to do is tap anywhere on the phone's display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you for calling Aira,” a friendly voice says. “How can I help you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Andy Del Valle, my agent, and, for as long as I need him, my long-distance eyes. Del Valle — sitting in front of his laptop — can now see through my Google Glass feed. As I scan my surroundings, he sees Amy Bernal, the company’s vice president of customer experience, who has helped get me outfitted; then I lower my head so he can see the path before my feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to my GPS connection, Del Valle is also able to locate me using Google Maps. We’re on the campus of San Francisco State University, for me unfamiliar turf. I ask him to direct me to the nearest cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within seconds, he's produced a route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, we’re approximating the Aira experience; I’m a sighted person with no orientation and mobility training, and I'm not using a dog or cane, as regular users do. I am, to put it gently, perhaps not the most graceful mover Del Valle has ever assisted. But he is cheerful as he offers me directions, like to turn left toward 11 o’clock. As I walk, he offers environmental cues, telling me to turn when I feel the slope of the sidewalk level out, or when I can feel the sun as I emerge from a nearby building’s shadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly grow to trust his voice in my ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a short walk, I hear music and a cash register — we’ve arrived at our destination. I want to order an iced coffee; Del Valle asks me to turn so he can scan a posted menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_424306\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/07/AiraPhoto1-e1499819013990.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-424306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/07/AiraPhoto1-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orientation and mobility specialist using Aira at the International Mobility Conference in 2016. (Courtesy Aira)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Taking picture,” an automated voice intones as Del Valle grabs a shot from the camera feed and zooms in. He also pulls up a more detailed menu online and gives me a rundown of options — espresso? Blended java drink? — and a headcount of how many people are in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle is among the 33 agents working that day, covering customers across the United States. The service runs from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m., Pacific time or 7 a.m.to 1 a.m. Eastern, and clients subscribe to a monthly plan or a package of minutes. (The monthly plans go from $89 to $329, depending on \u003ca href=\"https://aira.io/plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">level of service\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong>) \u003c/strong>Each user gets a personal profile that lists details like allergies, so an agent can warn someone allergic to shellfish, for example, that there’s shrimp salad on the potluck table. The company says it has \"hundreds\" of clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal, the customer experience VP, is also an agent, and she's set up shop for the afternoon in the campus’ special education department. The calls she fields run from the mundane (a man looking for a trash can while cleaning up after his guide dog) to the complicated (a lost woman with bad directions from a passerby can't find her bus stop.) “You'll never know until you pick up the call,” Bernal says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are hundreds of thousands of very clever and efficient solutions that don’t involve sight.'\u003ccite>Bryan Bashin, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sometimes they get a strange one — Bernal recalls an agent being asked to help a user do origami, having to hastily grab some paper and fold along. But most are the stuff of ordinary life: setting up the cable box, checking the expiration date on the milk, matching a shirt and tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Manosh, president of the River City Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind, in Sacramento, has been using Aira for about a year. She likes it for tasks that involve browsing, like shopping. Sure, she could ask a clerk for help, but “they go directly to whatever item we’ve asked for,” she says. “Well, what if I want to see maybe what’s on sale?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a natural history museum, she once had an agent describe the exhibits. A docent could have done that — if she’d booked one a month in advance. “Sighted people don’t have to do that, so why should we?” she asks. “Aira gives us the freedom to be able to really integrate and do things at our own time — when we want to, and where we want to go.” An agent even helped her find her father’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery. “It was a very emotional and just phenomenal feeling to be able to do it on my own time,” says Manosh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aira, based in San Diego, test-launched three years ago with 200 beta users. Among them was Victorville resident Michael Hingson, who has been blind since birth and recently became the company’s director of strategic sales. “Aira is not helping a blind person see,” Hingson says. “Aira is giving me information that the sighted world has not learned to provide to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on emails or websites, those who are visually impaired might use a screen reader that speaks the text aloud. For printed materials, they might try a phone app like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.knfbreader.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KNFB Reader\u003c/a>, which translates text using optical character recognition. But those don’t cover everything. Hingson recalls trying to assemble a laundry cart and discovering the instructions were in pictures, which his reader couldn’t decipher. So he called Aira. The agent zoomed in on the cart’s bar code and found assembly instructions on the internet. In a half-hour, Hingson said, “I had a working laundry cart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aira agents are trained to give factual information without offering advice, deferring to the user’s orientation and mobility training. “What I don’t want is an agent telling me it’s safe to cross the street — because the agent doesn't \u003cem>know\u003c/em> it’s safe to cross the street,” says Hingson. “That should be my choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning to give the right information is a balancing act, says Bernal. “When agents first start, they feel like they have to say every little thing that is in any remote path of a user,” she says. But a person’s dog or cane will help them avoid obstacles. Instead, it might be more useful to offer social information, like where the empty seat in the room is, or whether the driver greeting you at the airport is smiling and waving you over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxkq-Ta0tv4&ab_channel=KansasCityStarVideo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Free Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Bashin, CEO of the training and advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>, in San Francisco, has tried Aira, and points out that while it’s the first such for-profit service, it’s not the first visual interpretation app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the iPhone debuted, he says, “a lot of people had the same idea at the same time.” He sometimes uses \u003ca href=\"http://bemyeyes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Be My Eyes\u003c/a>, a free worldwide service powered by volunteers who assist by cellphone video chat. The free app \u003ca href=\"http://taptapseeapp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TapTapSee\u003c/a> identifies the content of still photos and speaks it aloud. And people can also improvise by simply Facetiming with friends or relatives. Bashin says these solutions are more accessible to low-income people than Aira’s paid service, although they lack some of the features — smartglasses, GPS mapping, agents trained to work with the blind. But what they all have in common, Bashin says, “is the world is still not 100 percent accessible for blind people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bashin says that dialing a sighted person can be especially helpful when optical character readers fail, noting they are often thwarted by glare (think thermostat screens) or fancy script (think wine bottle labels or handwritten mail). But Bashin cautions against over-reliance on visual interpreters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When somebody first becomes blind, they think that the answers to the obstacles of blindness are to have someone see for you,” he says. Yet a person can skillfully use other senses, like touch and hearing, and low-tech solutions, like Braille. “There are hundreds of thousands of very clever and efficient solutions that don’t involve sight,” Bashin continues. “That’s what we teach at the LightHouse, and that’s what will get us through the day with a little bit of grace, so that we can reserve these technologies for when they really count. I'm a little bit afraid that new students will avoid learning what they need to learn to be competent blind people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Aira users prefer a paid agent — often for fear of imposing on others’ time — Bashin doesn't mind asking a stranger to steer him toward the check-in desk or describe what’s on the buffet, because that’s a social activity. “Yes, I’ll learn where the strawberries are, but I’ll also learn about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. Now I’ve made a bridge to another person instead of isolating myself talking into a headset and some goggles,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Manosh, from the Sacramento National Federation of the Blind chapter, disagrees that the service will encourage isolation or over-reliance. She calls Aira “a tool in my toolbox” that also includes her cane and her mobility training. “You don’t have to rely \u003cem>just\u003c/em> on it, and that’s the beauty of it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_418103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-418103 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Bernal, Aira's vice president of customer experience, demonstrates what agents connected to the company's clients see on their screen -- a Google Map of the user's location with an inset of the video stream coming from their glasses or phone. (Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’ve had this experience where I’ve actually gone to an airport and thought ‘How do I know this airport? I’ve never been here before. You realize that you’ve been an agent for a user in an airport. You are like, ‘Oh, I’ve been in this terminal, but I haven’t \u003cem>been in this terminal\u003c/em>.’ It’s very déjà vu.'\u003ccite>Amy Bernal, Aira’s vice president of customer experience\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The next phase of Aira’s development will be to turn some tasks over to a machine. At first, Bernal says, the AI will likely assist the agent. Later, it might guide people through routine tasks, like daily commutes. Or it might replace agents in sensitive situations, while users are in restrooms or dealing with finances, for instance. (Currently, users can go into “privacy mode” with no video or audio, or hang up and call back.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hingson imagines sending a shopping list to Aira, and having the AI map his path through the store and check barcodes to confirm that he's grabbed the right items. He’d also like Aira integration with Facebook, so the system could use facial recognition to let him know if his friends are nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, employees like Bernal are happy to assist with just about everything, although she notes that there’s one oddly sci-fi effect of seeing the world through someone else’s lenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had this experience where I’ve actually gone to an airport and thought ‘How do I know this airport? I’ve never been here before,’ ” she says. “But you realize that you’ve been an agent for a user in an airport. You are like, ‘Oh, I’ve been in this terminal, but I haven’t \u003cem>been in this terminal\u003c/em>.’ It’s very déjà vu.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Finding a cafe, describing a museum exhibit or helping someone fold origami -- a new service helps blind people navigate by linking them with live agents who view their surroundings through smartglasses like Google Glass.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510960658,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":2315},"headData":{"title":"Through Google Glass, Remote Helper Sees What Blind Person Can't | KQED","description":"Finding a cafe, describing a museum exhibit or helping someone fold origami -- a new service helps blind people navigate by linking them with live agents who view their surroundings through smartglasses like Google Glass.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Through Google Glass, Remote Helper Sees What Blind Person Can't","datePublished":"2017-07-12T16:33:21.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-17T23:17:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"418097 https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/?p=418097","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/07/12/google-glass-feed-connects-the-blind-with-remote-human-guides/","disqusTitle":"Through Google Glass, Remote Helper Sees What Blind Person Can't","source":"KQED Future of You","nprByline":"Kara Platoni\u003cbr />Future of You","path":"/futureofyou/418097/google-glass-feed-connects-the-blind-with-remote-human-guides","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first thing I do is put on Google Glass, its tiny camera situated over my right eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A MiFi — a personal wireless hotspot — goes into my pocket. I pop in earbuds connected to a smartphone. Then I close my eyes. I am trying to simulate, for this demonstration, what it's like to navigate without being able to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Finding a cafe, describing a museum exhibit, or helping someone fold origami -- a new service guides blind people by connecting them with live agents who view their surroundings through smartglasses like Google Glass.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All geared up, I am now ready for my test run. \u003ca href=\"https://aira.io/#service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aira\u003c/a>, based in San Diego, is a paid service that offers \"visual interpretation\" for the blind and visually impaired. With a smartphone app, Aira users connect with a remote agent who sees through any one of four types of smartglasses and describes the client's environment to her. Employees say the service, which became available in March, is like \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/onstar/480471/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #24890d\">OnStar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"m-6819587429447741435apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>for the blind — or maybe like having your own personal “\u003ca href=\"http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Chloe_O%27Brian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #24890d\">Chloe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>,” the intelligence analyst on the TV show \"24\" who often remotely assists hero Jack Bauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I summon \u003cem>my\u003c/em> Chloe using the Aira interface, which consists of a giant blue button. All I have to do is tap anywhere on the phone's display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you for calling Aira,” a friendly voice says. “How can I help you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Andy Del Valle, my agent, and, for as long as I need him, my long-distance eyes. Del Valle — sitting in front of his laptop — can now see through my Google Glass feed. As I scan my surroundings, he sees Amy Bernal, the company’s vice president of customer experience, who has helped get me outfitted; then I lower my head so he can see the path before my feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to my GPS connection, Del Valle is also able to locate me using Google Maps. We’re on the campus of San Francisco State University, for me unfamiliar turf. I ask him to direct me to the nearest cafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within seconds, he's produced a route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, we’re approximating the Aira experience; I’m a sighted person with no orientation and mobility training, and I'm not using a dog or cane, as regular users do. I am, to put it gently, perhaps not the most graceful mover Del Valle has ever assisted. But he is cheerful as he offers me directions, like to turn left toward 11 o’clock. As I walk, he offers environmental cues, telling me to turn when I feel the slope of the sidewalk level out, or when I can feel the sun as I emerge from a nearby building’s shadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quickly grow to trust his voice in my ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a short walk, I hear music and a cash register — we’ve arrived at our destination. I want to order an iced coffee; Del Valle asks me to turn so he can scan a posted menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_424306\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/07/AiraPhoto1-e1499819013990.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-424306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/07/AiraPhoto1-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orientation and mobility specialist using Aira at the International Mobility Conference in 2016. (Courtesy Aira)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Taking picture,” an automated voice intones as Del Valle grabs a shot from the camera feed and zooms in. He also pulls up a more detailed menu online and gives me a rundown of options — espresso? Blended java drink? — and a headcount of how many people are in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle is among the 33 agents working that day, covering customers across the United States. The service runs from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m., Pacific time or 7 a.m.to 1 a.m. Eastern, and clients subscribe to a monthly plan or a package of minutes. (The monthly plans go from $89 to $329, depending on \u003ca href=\"https://aira.io/plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">level of service\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong>) \u003c/strong>Each user gets a personal profile that lists details like allergies, so an agent can warn someone allergic to shellfish, for example, that there’s shrimp salad on the potluck table. The company says it has \"hundreds\" of clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernal, the customer experience VP, is also an agent, and she's set up shop for the afternoon in the campus’ special education department. The calls she fields run from the mundane (a man looking for a trash can while cleaning up after his guide dog) to the complicated (a lost woman with bad directions from a passerby can't find her bus stop.) “You'll never know until you pick up the call,” Bernal says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are hundreds of thousands of very clever and efficient solutions that don’t involve sight.'\u003ccite>Bryan Bashin, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sometimes they get a strange one — Bernal recalls an agent being asked to help a user do origami, having to hastily grab some paper and fold along. But most are the stuff of ordinary life: setting up the cable box, checking the expiration date on the milk, matching a shirt and tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Manosh, president of the River City Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind, in Sacramento, has been using Aira for about a year. She likes it for tasks that involve browsing, like shopping. Sure, she could ask a clerk for help, but “they go directly to whatever item we’ve asked for,” she says. “Well, what if I want to see maybe what’s on sale?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a natural history museum, she once had an agent describe the exhibits. A docent could have done that — if she’d booked one a month in advance. “Sighted people don’t have to do that, so why should we?” she asks. “Aira gives us the freedom to be able to really integrate and do things at our own time — when we want to, and where we want to go.” An agent even helped her find her father’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery. “It was a very emotional and just phenomenal feeling to be able to do it on my own time,” says Manosh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aira, based in San Diego, test-launched three years ago with 200 beta users. Among them was Victorville resident Michael Hingson, who has been blind since birth and recently became the company’s director of strategic sales. “Aira is not helping a blind person see,” Hingson says. “Aira is giving me information that the sighted world has not learned to provide to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on emails or websites, those who are visually impaired might use a screen reader that speaks the text aloud. For printed materials, they might try a phone app like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.knfbreader.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KNFB Reader\u003c/a>, which translates text using optical character recognition. But those don’t cover everything. Hingson recalls trying to assemble a laundry cart and discovering the instructions were in pictures, which his reader couldn’t decipher. So he called Aira. The agent zoomed in on the cart’s bar code and found assembly instructions on the internet. In a half-hour, Hingson said, “I had a working laundry cart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aira agents are trained to give factual information without offering advice, deferring to the user’s orientation and mobility training. “What I don’t want is an agent telling me it’s safe to cross the street — because the agent doesn't \u003cem>know\u003c/em> it’s safe to cross the street,” says Hingson. “That should be my choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning to give the right information is a balancing act, says Bernal. “When agents first start, they feel like they have to say every little thing that is in any remote path of a user,” she says. But a person’s dog or cane will help them avoid obstacles. Instead, it might be more useful to offer social information, like where the empty seat in the room is, or whether the driver greeting you at the airport is smiling and waving you over.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jxkq-Ta0tv4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jxkq-Ta0tv4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Free Services\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan Bashin, CEO of the training and advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://lighthouse-sf.org/\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>, in San Francisco, has tried Aira, and points out that while it’s the first such for-profit service, it’s not the first visual interpretation app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the iPhone debuted, he says, “a lot of people had the same idea at the same time.” He sometimes uses \u003ca href=\"http://bemyeyes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Be My Eyes\u003c/a>, a free worldwide service powered by volunteers who assist by cellphone video chat. The free app \u003ca href=\"http://taptapseeapp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TapTapSee\u003c/a> identifies the content of still photos and speaks it aloud. And people can also improvise by simply Facetiming with friends or relatives. Bashin says these solutions are more accessible to low-income people than Aira’s paid service, although they lack some of the features — smartglasses, GPS mapping, agents trained to work with the blind. But what they all have in common, Bashin says, “is the world is still not 100 percent accessible for blind people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bashin says that dialing a sighted person can be especially helpful when optical character readers fail, noting they are often thwarted by glare (think thermostat screens) or fancy script (think wine bottle labels or handwritten mail). But Bashin cautions against over-reliance on visual interpreters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When somebody first becomes blind, they think that the answers to the obstacles of blindness are to have someone see for you,” he says. Yet a person can skillfully use other senses, like touch and hearing, and low-tech solutions, like Braille. “There are hundreds of thousands of very clever and efficient solutions that don’t involve sight,” Bashin continues. “That’s what we teach at the LightHouse, and that’s what will get us through the day with a little bit of grace, so that we can reserve these technologies for when they really count. I'm a little bit afraid that new students will avoid learning what they need to learn to be competent blind people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Aira users prefer a paid agent — often for fear of imposing on others’ time — Bashin doesn't mind asking a stranger to steer him toward the check-in desk or describe what’s on the buffet, because that’s a social activity. “Yes, I’ll learn where the strawberries are, but I’ll also learn about \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. Now I’ve made a bridge to another person instead of isolating myself talking into a headset and some goggles,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Manosh, from the Sacramento National Federation of the Blind chapter, disagrees that the service will encourage isolation or over-reliance. She calls Aira “a tool in my toolbox” that also includes her cane and her mobility training. “You don’t have to rely \u003cem>just\u003c/em> on it, and that’s the beauty of it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_418103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-418103 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Aira5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Bernal, Aira's vice president of customer experience, demonstrates what agents connected to the company's clients see on their screen -- a Google Map of the user's location with an inset of the video stream coming from their glasses or phone. (Kara Platoni/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’ve had this experience where I’ve actually gone to an airport and thought ‘How do I know this airport? I’ve never been here before. You realize that you’ve been an agent for a user in an airport. You are like, ‘Oh, I’ve been in this terminal, but I haven’t \u003cem>been in this terminal\u003c/em>.’ It’s very déjà vu.'\u003ccite>Amy Bernal, Aira’s vice president of customer experience\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The next phase of Aira’s development will be to turn some tasks over to a machine. At first, Bernal says, the AI will likely assist the agent. Later, it might guide people through routine tasks, like daily commutes. Or it might replace agents in sensitive situations, while users are in restrooms or dealing with finances, for instance. (Currently, users can go into “privacy mode” with no video or audio, or hang up and call back.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hingson imagines sending a shopping list to Aira, and having the AI map his path through the store and check barcodes to confirm that he's grabbed the right items. He’d also like Aira integration with Facebook, so the system could use facial recognition to let him know if his friends are nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, employees like Bernal are happy to assist with just about everything, although she notes that there’s one oddly sci-fi effect of seeing the world through someone else’s lenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had this experience where I’ve actually gone to an airport and thought ‘How do I know this airport? I’ve never been here before,’ ” she says. “But you realize that you’ve been an agent for a user in an airport. You are like, ‘Oh, I’ve been in this terminal, but I haven’t \u003cem>been in this terminal\u003c/em>.’ It’s very déjà vu.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/futureofyou/418097/google-glass-feed-connects-the-blind-with-remote-human-guides","authors":["byline_futureofyou_418097"],"categories":["futureofyou_452","futureofyou_1062","futureofyou_1","futureofyou_73"],"tags":["futureofyou_1130","futureofyou_1275","futureofyou_226"],"featImg":"futureofyou_424272","label":"source_futureofyou_418097"},"news_10840539":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10840539","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10840539","score":null,"sort":[1453554024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pixars-new-app-gives-the-blind-a-new-way-to-experience-movies","title":"Pixar's New App Gives the Blind a New Way to Experience Movies","publishDate":1453554024,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>While we all love going to the movies, the experience often becomes a huge challenge for the blind and low-vision community when the visual aids provided by theaters are broken (or can't even be found). Fortunately, that may be about to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pixar Studios is developing an app that syncs your phone with a narration track. Interspersed between segments of dialogue, it describes what’s happening on-screen -- characters, action, costumes -- through your headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243324744\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Pixar \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/guidedogsfortheblind/sets/72157662146678371/\" target=\"_blank\">threw a party\u003c/a> at their Emeryville headquarters to test out the new app, in collaboration with Bay Area non-profits like LightHouse for the Blind, the Blind Babies Foundation and Guide Dogs. Complete with an expansive red carpet, the event was a Gatsby-like dazzle of light and noise, flashing cameras and a whole fleet of seeing-eye dogs. The evening culminated in a screening of \"The Good Dinosaur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are definitely some kinks to be worked out. A large portion of the audience -- sighted and non-sighted alike -- had trouble downloading it onto their phones. But thanks to a few Pixar employees, looking only mildly nervous, everyone soon had it working. Lisamaria Martinez, the director of community services at the LightHouse for the Blind, explained that it offered great improvements over current visual aids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10841766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-800x503.jpg\" alt='Attendees walk into the theater at “The Good Dinosaur\" screening event at Pixar headquarters.' width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10841766\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-768x482.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees walk into the theater at “The Good Dinosaur\" screening event at Pixar headquarters. \u003ccite>(Guide Dogs for the Blind/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Often I'm handed the handset for the hard of hearing,” she said. “Then I have to rely on the fact that they've charged the device...and that they've turned on the audio-description tracks. A lot of times they don't and I have to go look for someone...and I've lost the first 15 minutes of the movie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going to movies with her four-year-old is particularly discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kid’s a pretty smart kid, and he asks lots of questions: Mommy, what was that? How do I explain something that needs explaining when I don't even know it happened?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the film began and animated talking dinosaurs galloped across the screen, the theater filled with laughter. Many folks who had never fully followed a film before suddenly knew what was happening. Read in an almost comical monotone, the female narration track was concise and dry -- a bit like IKEA instructions. Here's an example: “A bush rustled nearby. Arlo hides. A fully-grown chicken-like dinosaur with red eyes looms over them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet no one seemed to mind the hollow voice, and when the lights came up, the applause was raucous. Ms. Martinez was excited by how thorough the narration was. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the movie,” she explained, “I realized that it had dialogue, [but] not nearly as much as other movies. If that wasn’t there, I’d be so lost. Being able to have accessibility in my own power, it’s empowering to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of the audience, Pixar's new app offers much more than a chance to merely follow along. It offers the possibility of a drastic change -- that a group of people who have long been left out of a full movie experience can finally feel included.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The app aims to make a group of people who have long been left out of a full movie experience finally feel included.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1453514555,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":588},"headData":{"title":"Pixar's New App Gives the Blind a New Way to Experience Movies | KQED","description":"The app aims to make a group of people who have long been left out of a full movie experience finally feel included.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Pixar's New App Gives the Blind a New Way to Experience Movies","datePublished":"2016-01-23T13:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2016-01-23T02:02:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10840539 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10840539","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/23/pixars-new-app-gives-the-blind-a-new-way-to-experience-movies/","disqusTitle":"Pixar's New App Gives the Blind a New Way to Experience Movies","customPermalink":"2016/01/23/pixar-new-app-gives-blind-new-way-to-experience-movies/","nprStoryId":"464090739","path":"/news/10840539/pixars-new-app-gives-the-blind-a-new-way-to-experience-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While we all love going to the movies, the experience often becomes a huge challenge for the blind and low-vision community when the visual aids provided by theaters are broken (or can't even be found). Fortunately, that may be about to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pixar Studios is developing an app that syncs your phone with a narration track. Interspersed between segments of dialogue, it describes what’s happening on-screen -- characters, action, costumes -- through your headphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243324744&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243324744'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Pixar \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/guidedogsfortheblind/sets/72157662146678371/\" target=\"_blank\">threw a party\u003c/a> at their Emeryville headquarters to test out the new app, in collaboration with Bay Area non-profits like LightHouse for the Blind, the Blind Babies Foundation and Guide Dogs. Complete with an expansive red carpet, the event was a Gatsby-like dazzle of light and noise, flashing cameras and a whole fleet of seeing-eye dogs. The evening culminated in a screening of \"The Good Dinosaur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are definitely some kinks to be worked out. A large portion of the audience -- sighted and non-sighted alike -- had trouble downloading it onto their phones. But thanks to a few Pixar employees, looking only mildly nervous, everyone soon had it working. Lisamaria Martinez, the director of community services at the LightHouse for the Blind, explained that it offered great improvements over current visual aids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10841766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-800x503.jpg\" alt='Attendees walk into the theater at “The Good Dinosaur\" screening event at Pixar headquarters.' width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10841766\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-768x482.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/TheaterAttendeesWalkIn-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees walk into the theater at “The Good Dinosaur\" screening event at Pixar headquarters. \u003ccite>(Guide Dogs for the Blind/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Often I'm handed the handset for the hard of hearing,” she said. “Then I have to rely on the fact that they've charged the device...and that they've turned on the audio-description tracks. A lot of times they don't and I have to go look for someone...and I've lost the first 15 minutes of the movie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going to movies with her four-year-old is particularly discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kid’s a pretty smart kid, and he asks lots of questions: Mommy, what was that? How do I explain something that needs explaining when I don't even know it happened?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the film began and animated talking dinosaurs galloped across the screen, the theater filled with laughter. Many folks who had never fully followed a film before suddenly knew what was happening. Read in an almost comical monotone, the female narration track was concise and dry -- a bit like IKEA instructions. 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