{"id":6,"date":"2006-09-25T02:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/blogs\/bmy1\/2006\/09\/25\/apps-group-response-topic-assistive-tech\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T21:53:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:53:31","slug":"helptank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/25\/helptank\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistive Tech Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Mike Dory for the documentation available below.<\/p>\n

“HelpTank is the brainchild of five graduate students at NYU\u2019s ITP program. When asked to do a presentation on assistive technology, they deliberated for days on what they should do. Skits, video projects, parodies – there was no shortage of ideas – but none of which satisfied their urge to help others. They realized that instead of doing a project that would last only 20 minutes, they wanted to build something permanent, something that would reach out to others. HelpTank was thus born.<\/span><\/p>\n

We believe that obstacles surround us, solutions are abundant, and people generally want to do good. Using a simple website to bridge these ideas, HelpTank aims to show that helping can be easy. Participants are free to submit things that need fixing<\/a>, ideas of fixes<\/a>, and stories of good deeds<\/a>. Our hope is to provide practical assistance and positive inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first beta launch looked like this:
\n\"HelpTank<\/span><\/p>\n

HelpTank was created in collaboration with Ji-Sun Lee, Evrim Sahin, Ben Yee, and Ben Chao.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further development for HelpTank had been put on temporary hold as the five of us finished out the year at ITP, but at the request of an assistive non-profit in the NYC area, further work will resume in the summer of 2007.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Mike Dory for the documentation available below. “HelpTank is the brainchild of five graduate students at NYU\u2019s ITP program. When asked to do a presentation on assistive technology, they deliberated for days on what they should do. Skits, video projects, parodies – there was no shortage of ideas – but none of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}