Being a person who has had clear vision his whole life, the idea of taking photos without looking at my subject is hard for me to comprehend. This is not to say that it is not important, or that it does not happen, just that it is difficult for me to grasp.
With that in mind, and after reading through the paper that was posted yesterday, we here at Mistaken Umbrella are going to do our best to create an app for Android 4.0 that is designed to assist people take pictures, without being able to look at the screen.
Why Android 4.0? Camera Face Recognition. With Android 4.0's API we are able to identify faces from the camera, so we are able to provide feedback to users on how to better center their pictures, without having to take a picture first.
So far we've thought about using either the speakers, or the vibration system in order to provide feedback, but we're looking for suggestions. If anyone can give us any ideas on other features that would be helpful we'd love to hear them. If you could please leave them in the comments below we'd be happy to add them to our list of things we'd like to do.
