约书亚-米勒 适应性技术设计师

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Joshua Miele
Adaptive Technology Designer | Class of 2021
Developing devices to enable blind and visually impaired people to access everyday technologies and digital information.


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Title
Adaptive Technology Designer
Affiliation
Amazon Lab126
Location
Berkeley, California
Age
52 at time of award
Area of Focus
Persons with Disabilities
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Published September 28, 2021
ABOUT JOSHUA'S WORK
Joshua Miele is a blind adaptive technology designer developing devices to enable blind and visually impaired (BVI) people to use technologies that pervade our lives. Miele’s graduate work focused on psychoacoustics (the science of sound perception) and directional aspects of hearing. More recently, he is creating effective and affordable solutions to everyday problems blind people face, particularly access to digital information.

For example, tactile maps are difficult to find, often expensive, and available for only a limited number of locations. Miele developed Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP), a web-based software that generates tactile street maps of any location that can be printed with at-home Braille embossers. He designed a set of tactile maps for every station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system—including platforms and street-level features—that is compatible with an audio smart pen, making it possible for blind travelers to virtually explore and plan their route through the BART system. Miele has also worked to make features on smart phones and portable devices more accessible to blind individuals. WearaBraille has sensors attached to users’ fingers to allow them to type Braille text without a special keyboard. Much of his recent work has focused on visual digital technologies, such as access to graphics and streaming video, that are often inaccessible to the BVI community. His YouDescribe platform combines crowd-sourced audio descriptions of YouTube videos with an interface to synchronize the descriptive audio with the video source.

Currently, Miele is an accessibility researcher at Amazon, where he has contributed to projects such as Braille compatibility with Fire tablets and a “Show and Tell” feature on camera-enabled Echo devices that can identify pantry and food items. Miele’s expertise in information accessibility and commitment to making solutions available for mass use will be increasingly important as we move into an ever more digitized world.

BIOGRAPHY
Joshua Miele received a BA (1992) and PhD (2003) from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2007 to 2019, he worked at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute as a principal investigator and as the associate director of research and development. Miele also served as the president of the board of directors for San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired (2011–2015). Currently, he is a principal accessibility researcher at Amazon Lab126. Miele’s work has appeared in Perception, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, and British Journal of Visual Impairment, among other scientific journals, and in numerous conference proceedings, including those for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, among others.



约书亚-米勒
适应性技术设计师｜2021级
开发设备，使盲人和视力障碍者能够获得日常技术和数字信息。


约书亚-米勒的肖像

标题
适应性技术设计师
工作单位
亚马逊实验室126
工作地点
加州伯克利
年龄
获奖时为52岁
关注领域
残障人士
社会
推特
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出版日期：2021年9月28日
关于Joshua的工作
约书亚-米勒是一名盲人适应性技术设计师，他开发的设备使盲人和视力障碍者（BVI）能够使用渗透到我们生活中的技术。米勒的研究生工作侧重于心理声学（声音感知的科学）和听力的方向性。最近，他正在为盲人所面临的日常问题，特别是获取数字信息的问题，创造有效和可负担的解决方案。

例如，触觉地图很难找到，往往很贵，而且只能在有限的地点使用。米勒开发了触觉地图自动化生产（TMAP），这是一个基于网络的软件，可以生成任何地点的触觉街道地图，可以用家用盲文压印机打印。他为湾区捷运（BART）系统的每个车站设计了一套触觉地图--包括月台和街道特征--与音频智能笔兼容，使盲人旅客有可能在BART系统中虚拟探索和计划他们的路线。Miele还致力于使盲人更容易使用智能手机和便携式设备的功能。WearaBraille在用户的手指上安装了传感器，使他们可以在没有特殊键盘的情况下输入盲文。他最近的大部分工作都集中在视觉数字技术上，例如获取图形和流媒体视频，而这些技术对英属维尔京群岛社区来说往往是不可及的。他的YouDescribe平台将众包的YouTube视频音频描述与一个界面相结合，使描述性音频与视频源同步。

目前，米勒是亚马逊的无障碍研究人员，他为一些项目做出了贡献，如Fire平板电脑的盲文兼容性，以及支持摄像头的Echo设备上的 "展示和讲述 "功能，可以识别储藏室和食品项目。随着我们进入一个越来越数字化的世界，米勒在信息无障碍方面的专业知识和对提供大众使用的解决方案的承诺将变得越来越重要。

个人简历
约书亚-米勒在加州大学伯克利分校获得了学士（1992年）和博士学位（2003年）。2007年至2019年，他在史密斯-凯特尔韦尔眼科研究所担任首席研究员和研究与开发副主任。米勒还曾担任旧金山盲人和视力障碍者之家（LightHouse）的董事会主席（2011-2015年）。目前，他是亚马逊实验室126的首席无障碍研究人员。米勒的作品发表在《感知》、《视觉障碍与失明杂志》和《英国视觉障碍杂志》等科学杂志上，以及许多会议论文集上，包括CHI计算机系统中的人为因素会议和ACM设计互动系统会议等。