Mobile App Developer Competition (HaptiMap)
From the website:
Win 4000 Euro, a smartphone or a tablet!
This competition is open for mobile apps, which demonstrate designs that can be used by a wide range of users and in a wide range of situations (also on the move). The designs can make use of visual (on-screen) elements, but they should also make significant use of the non-visual interaction channels. The competition is open both for newly developed apps as well as existing apps who are updated using the HaptiMap toolkit. To enter the competition, the app implementation must make use of the HaptiMap toolkit. Your app can rely on existing toolkit modules, but it is also possible extend or add appropriate modules (in line with the purpose of HaptiMap) into the toolkit.
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Important dates:
The competition closes 15th of June 17.00 CET 2012. The winners will be announced at the HAID’12 workshop (http://www.haid.ws) 23-24 August 2012, Lund, Sweden.
In case you aren’t familiar with HaptiMap:
What is HaptiMap?
HaptiMap is an EU project which aims at making maps and location based services more accessible by using several senses like vision, hearing, and, particularly, touch. Enabling haptic access to mainstream map and LBS data allows more people to use them in a number of different environmental or individual circumstances. For example, when navigating in low-visibility (e.g., bright sunlight) and/or high noise environments, preferring to concentrate on riding your bike, sightseeing and/or listening to sounds, or when your visual and/or auditory senses are impaired (e.g., due to age).
If you think about it, what is being proposed is standard mapping but not using the standard (visual) channel.