Student project aimed at helping the visually impaired take notes in class wins prize at Microsoft Imagine Cup.

Students with low vision typically use an assistive technology (such as a monocular) to see the front of the classroom. Switching between sitting erect to view the front of the room through the monocular, hunching down to take handwritten notes, and then sitting up again greatly slows down note-taking. In a fast paced class (with a lot of board work) this delay can cause the student to fall behind in note-taking, compared to his or her fully-sighted peers. The Note-Taker is designed to allow students with low vision to hover over a Tablet PC laptop to simultaneously view a zoomed-in video of the front of the classroom and take handwritten notes on the Tablet PC surface with a stylus.