NCRA TechCon 2014

Who Am I? Mirabai Knight, RDR, CCP

• Sole Proprietor: StenoKnight CART Services, New York, NY

• Strategic Partner: White Coat Captioning, LLC

• Founder: The Plover Project/The Open Steno Project

Why I Bought Glass Cyberpunk Childhood Tax-Deductible Gadget Hound National Novel Writing Month

Glass Right Now Up and to the right Explorer Edition:

Only the rich and geeky

Consumer model specs and price still unknown

Emphasis on camera and voice interface

Captioning on Glass

Streamtext & 1CapApp Ideal for clinical rounds Enhances rapport Preserves eye contact Hands-free and mobile Conversational review

How I’ll Use Glass Deaf/HoH dental, medical,

and veterinary students Clients requiring discretion When interpreters

aren’t appropriate Art school critiques Museum tours Networking mixers Orientation events

Limitations

Eye strain Sanitization Glasses/contacts Multiple clients Four-hour battery life Dim in bright sunlight Aesthetic considerations No captioning direct to Glass

Seven lines of text at a time Internal microphone

might not be sufficient Not true augmented reality Two-second Streamtext delay Wi-Fi or Bluetooth

phone tethering required Who pays for breakage?

Glass: A Segway For Your Face?

Pushback Conspicuous Consumption

#throughglass Campaign

Internet Harrassment

Privacy Violations

Silicon Valley Elite

Travel Hazard

Smug

No Glass Sans

Camera

Legal Implications

Tech Writer Sarah Slocum

Entrepreneur Cecilia Abadie

Rarity Versus Ubiquity

Four Futures:

Lots of people who wear it always Lots of people who wear it sometimes A few people who wear it always A few people who wear it sometimes

How can you beat a cell phone? What will be the killer app? Higher volume, lower cost Critical mass required for

assumption of ownership Social mores and rules of etiquette

More Accessibility Options

Conversational text-to-speech with walkaround steno

Head-mounted interface ideal for wheelchairs

Braille display Theater and Sports

Alex Blaszczuk, Law Student

Courtrooms and Depo Rooms Autobrief display Disabling the camera Bench conferences

Video backup Quick exhibit photography Googling for spellings

Macon County Court Reporters

Other Applications Sending secret

messages Following depos

while golfing English-to-English

captioning Simultaneous

captioning of multiple conference tracks

Live animated GIFs at open captioned events

Wearable Realtime Beyond Glass

Shirts Watches Portable projectors HUD Contact Lenses

We’re Gonna Have to See

Will the look get less nerdy? Will the cost come down? Will the social stigma flip? Will the battery life improve? Will it become true

augmented reality? Do we need it?

Questions/Demo Any questions? Pass It Around