{"340461":{"#nid":"340461","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Google Glass Apps Showcase the Potential of Wearable Educational Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ELast month Google made its wearable Glass product available to the general public for the first time. One application serves people with hearing disabilities. Developed by \u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0027s Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E the Captioning on Glass app converts audio spoken into a smartphone to captioning that will be visible to anyone wearing the device. Currently, the app is used to help anyone with a hearing disability refer back to words that were spoken and not picked up by reading lips or facial gestures. Conversely, the speaker has the chance to edit out \u0022uhs,\u0022 \u0022ums\u0022 and other verbal tics. The same team is also working on a Translation to Glass product, that will aim to replicate the functionality of Word Lens for audio translation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-11-04 11:59:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Society for Human Resource Management","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/brad-spirrison\/how-google-glass-apps-sho_b_5979230.html","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}