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Re: Yayagram

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Post by aacook »

randomdrake wrote: post #120

For folks interested in technology that helps to keep our less-technological relatives connected, I highly recommend NanaGram[0]. I’ve been a paid user since the early days and it’s an absolute delight to my grandmother every single time it shows up during the month. 1. Register and get a unique phone number to text 2. Start sending photos to that number via SMS 3. Share the phone number with other relatives and tell…

NanaGram founder here. (I use F5bot to get alerts of mentions.)

Saw Yayagram the other day and love it! My grandma was a telephone operator for decades and would have been over-the-moon using Yayagram. This is a truly underserved space. The elderly lead increasingly isolated lives and products that increase social connections improve quality of life and make people smile!

Thanks for the NanaGram shout-out. I'm grateful for your gratefulness and to be able to work on NanaGram. Happy to answer any question anyone has.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by ISL »

frereubu wrote: post #81
boatsie wrote: post #59

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It seems tempting to solve technological problems with more technology, but my experience is more technology is more problems. The password manager will update/ask for updates. It will ask about auto fill or saving passwords, etc. The people with password understanding problems definitely don’t understand password management problems!

1Password has worked well for my 90-year-old mother. I disabled the "ask to save password" option. If she needs a new account on something - which doesn't happen very often - I just use Screen Sharing (we both have Macs) and set it up for her. I also have her 1Password account syncing to mine. Although I do still get support phone calls when there's a glitch, it's worked out very well on balance, compared to the amou…

Unfortunately, Chromebooks also disable perpetual screen-sharing (in order to prevent very-real scam behavior), too. :-/.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by ISL »

kawzeg wrote: post #117
ISL wrote: post #22

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The biggest problem we have faced, unfortunately, is the proliferation of modern security features. Chromebooks are awesome in many ways for the elderly, but the fact that you can't disable password entry at startup has been a dealbreaker for my aging father. He can't type easily and is beginning to struggle with passwords. Paradoxically, this means that he's still running his Ubuntu laptop (he has been using UNIX sy…

I know this idea is a little ridiculous, but it just popped into my head: what about using one of those rubber ducky USB keys that pretend they're a keyboard and enter certain keystrokes? You could have it enter the password when inserted. Or, perhaps a physical password manager that can store multiple passwords, with a labeled button for each?

I'll have to look into that -- it might work.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by [deleted] »

sedatk wrote: post #130

This is brilliant, but maybe I missed it: what happens when yaya's run out of thermal paper? It feels like the Achilles' heel of this design. Perhaps, a blinking LED for out of paper situation? Can yaya change the roll herself? I'm concerned about it because I loved this project in all aspects, I want it to be perfect.

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Re: Yayagram

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Post by [deleted] »

grok22 wrote: post #35

Something like this needs to be made commercial at a reasonable price-point :-(. It will help bridge the technology gap between aged grand-parents who aren't comfortable with modern tech and up-to-date grand-kids who live in far-flung places and are more comfortable with the newer methods of communication. Also connecting to a network must be made transparent somehow in these devices like Kindle's WhisperNet.

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Re: Yayagram

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Post by musingsole »

hervature wrote: post #53
musingsole wrote: post #15

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NUIs: iNuitive User Interfaces used to be (perhaps still is) an interesting design philosophy in the UX space. The goal being to build a system that a brand new user fresh off the boat could walk up to and intuit what the system could do and how to manipulate the system to solve their problems. Though this is complicated by our thought patterns and habits being altered by just interacting with computer systems. So, i…

Does NUI not stand for Natural User Interface? iNtuitive is definitely Non-intuitive.

Probably an attempt at the time to expand the scope of the acronym as the natural user interface concepts are older.

Re: Yayagram

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Post by jfroma »

beachy wrote: post #113

There are so many beautiful UI hints with this. 1) The shape of the microphone positively urges the user to lean forward and talk into it. Compare to a modern smartphone where it's not at all obvious where the microphone is. 2) The giant red button next to the microphone positively scream "press me to talk", and it's obvious that the red LED will light up when the button is pressed. Removes any "is this thing on"? th…

I feel sad using homepods as intercom... I wish I had a button now.

Unfortunately, I think Apple hasn’t open this api yet

Re: Yayagram

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Super cute and well executed project.

But after imagining how this would work in practice, my loved ones sitting down to talk to a box and getting text responses some indefinite time later to recorded messages they might not even remember the contents of (I wouldn't), it seems comically sad. It makes me think of how unsatisfying it is to attempt any real convo over SMS.

Then again, I'm sure it's a supplement to the weekly or monthly video calls they're already having where yaya gets to see and hear their grandkids. But I can't shake the pathetic vision of yaya recording a 10min voice message and then, three days later, getting "school is good thx yaya!!".

Re: Yayagram

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Post by VonGuard »

punnerud wrote: post #116
FredPret wrote: post #94

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I wish I could buy and ship this to my mom. Don’t have the time to set it up and she lives far away.

I have bought this for my grandma that live on a senior home: https://www.noisolation.com/global/komp Just one knob to turn it on and adjust the sound. My other grandma have an iPhone that she barely know how to use (she still have the old one on the wall she love). I first call her, than tell her to tap the green button if she she want to use camera (switch to FaceTime). This works great for us to keep contact. Thou…

A shame this is only available in Europe....

Re: Yayagram

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Post by [deleted] »

khazhoux wrote: post #89
bozzcl wrote: post #76

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If you know that wasn't the intent, why make this complaint at all?

When people use the expression "So simple even your grandmother will understand it" I don't think they are trying to insult anyone. But... it is an insult, whether it was meant that way or not.

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