他们发明了神奇软件，让盲人使用手机也像你我一样_风闻

2020共创未来——中美青年创客大赛总决赛即将在8月21日打响。

本次中美青年创客大赛由中国教育部主办，中国（教育部）留学服务中心、清华大学、北京歌华文化发展集团、谷歌信息技术（中国）有限公司和中国大学科技园联盟承办。目前已连续举办七年，吸引了超过2万7千名中美青年参与，共计产生7600余项作品，为中美两国的人文交流提供了高质量平台。

今年的决赛入围团队正在紧张优化作品中。在总决赛开始前，让我们一起来看看之前的选手们做出了怎样的成就吧~

如今我们越来越离不开手机，大街、地铁、商场，无论何时何地，拿起手机，我们都能够连接世界。

但是，盲人如何使用智能手机呢？

青年创客周江南在2018年中美创客大赛中给出了他的方案。

从今天开始，解读中国工作室将推出“2018中美青年创客”系列短片精彩回顾，带你到现场一起深入感受中美青年创客精神！今天推出《你是我的眼》。

△2018中美创客大赛总决赛《你是我的眼》

从2017年11月到2018年1月，周江南和盲人生活了将近3个月。

没有和他们真正生活在一起的时候，其实很多东西我是误解的，我认为盲人就是弱势群体。但是和他们生活在一起后，我发现我们明眼人能做的事情，他们也可以做。对于他们来说，他们和明眼人的差别就是使用智能手机非常困难、非常麻烦，出行也非常困难。后来我就想，能不能用我现在掌握的技术来帮助他们解决这些问题。

Before actually living with them for some time, I had many misunderstandings towards the blind. I used to believe they were sort of vulnerable. But later, I found out they were capable of doing a lot of stuff just as sighted people. However, for them, it remained very difficult to use a smart-phone, very inconvenient. And they also had problems with going outside. So I thought, would it be possible to help them deal with these problems by applying scientific knowledge I’ve learned.

那么问题来了，要怎样解决这一系列的问题呢？

我们为全国1700万视力障碍者、盲人设计的产品其实是手机的一个用户系统，盲人安装完我们这个APP之后，可以操控手机里面所有的APP。把微信、QQ、类似于常用的APP，这些所有带文字的标签都可以给盲人读取出来，让盲人使用。

The product we designed for the 17 million visually impaired or blind people nationwide is in fact a user system of the mobile phone. So this means it will be a basic function for the blind to operate all the apps on the mobile phone when they install the APP developed by my team. The theory is to read out those commonly used apps, such as WeChat and QQ, which are character labeled, so the blind can use them conveniently.

我们产品当中还包括娱乐方面。“启明FM”为盲人提供了将近有300多部无障碍口述电影。当然还有很多其他音频，一些学习或娱乐方面的资源。

We also provide resources for entertainment. In “Qiming FM”, we have nearly 300 accessible oral movies for the blind, as well as many audios or other learning or entertaining resources.

我们产品另外一个侧重点就是解决盲人的出行问题。我们是通过我们的启明出行APP，给盲人起到一个出行导航的作用，同时结合一个简单的辅助硬件和手机连接，通过视频客服的形式。

Another focus of our product is to solve the problem of going outside for the blind. Through “Qiming Chuxing”, an app, the blind can navigate the direction, and they can apply for video customer service through simple auxiliary hardware connected to their mobile phones.

当然，一切的努力都是为了给盲人带来实实在在的帮助。为此，他们是怎样做的，又是怎样想的呢？

从我们1月份确定好这种独创的交互方式之后，然后到3月份我们的产品正式推出之后，4月份就在武汉盲校，有200多个盲校的学生，一直在体验我们的产品，并且给了我们很多反馈。他们也提出了很多比较个性化的功能，我们就在不断完善和优化。

We developed this interactive processing in January and officially launched it in March. Then in April, the product was tested by more than 200 students in schools for the blind in Wuhan, and we received a lot of feedback from them afterward. These students gave ideas on some personalized functions that motivated us to further improve and optimize the product.

虽然很不幸落选了，周江南并没有想到放弃。

在我理解当中，创客是大胆地用自己的想法，把这个想法实现起来，之后还要考虑到市场。能不能运营下去，做完之后能不能帮助到人。所以说目前我是从创客应该更深一步到创业阶段，就是说我要把我的想法、方案，真正地能帮助到我现在所服务的盲人这个群体。

Makers, in my understanding, are a group of young people who bravely try to realize what’s in their minds. I think in addition to realizing their ideas, makers will have to consider the market. It is about whether you can actually run this through, and whether you can actually help people when you finish a program. At present, I am a Maker, and I think I should go deeper to the stage of start-ups, that is to say, I want my ideas, my programs to indeed help the blind I am serving now.

在小编看来，这就是创客精神最好的样子！

无独有偶，一支美国团队也制作了帮助盲人的产品。明天，我们将围观他们引以为豪的作品——“盲视”。