AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 2.5. Trustworthiness 65 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 21 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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Mixed user feedback
Average 2.5★ rating suggests room for improvement
About VizLens
Key Features:
- Virtual Interaction: Capture an image of your appliance's interface, and VizLens will create a virtual layout of the buttons relative to each other. Simply touch a button to hear its corresponding text.
- Live Camera Interaction: The innovative feature of VizLens, this view allows you to aim your camera at the appliance interface and use your finger to point at buttons. The app will then audibly speak the text of the buttons you're pointing at.
Using VizLens is simple and intuitive:
- Take a photo of your appliance's interface
- Let the app identify and extract button text
- Choose between Virtual Interaction View and Live Camera View to interact with your appliance
VizLens is committed to providing visually impaired people with greater independence and ease of use when interacting with everyday appliances. If you have any questions or feedback, please email us at humanailab-vizlens@umich.edu.
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Reviews for VizLens
guidiean
Promising and mostly effective
OK let’s give this an honest review. Taking a picture is possible with voiceover enabled, you have to have a steady hand but it will work. The app works mostly as advertised with a few caveats. First it only recognizes text and numbers it will not identify icons, second it doesn’t have a feature to enable you to label the icons, so it basically throws out any images it doesn’t recognize. That’s really the largest problem here. If we were able to identify the unknown icons with custom text, this would be a much higher rating than the three stars.
Vtsaran
Feedback about app's friendliness for blind users
This is an awesome idea and I really want this app to succeed. I will be sending my feedback to the developer as well. There are very few instructions on how to actually use the virtual and picture mode. The "take picture” functionality, in particular, needs some improvement. It is hard to expect a blind person to take a good picture of the appliance on their own. So, I think, an auto-take feature should be available. . Whenever I tried taking a picture on my own, I would get a message saying that the picture is of a bad quality. In other words, so far I was not able to take advantage of this app.
