{"id":8755,"date":"2022-06-09T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2022-06-09T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T02:33:13","slug":"snap-search-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2022\/06\/09\/snap-search-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap, Search &amp; Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>App developers are leveraging cameras on mobile devices in creative ways. Snapping a picture, and having databases match your search, is the new way to search for information and learn. Image recognition technology is speeding up our traditional information-seeking methods.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/picturethis-plant-identifier\/id1252497129\">PictureThis- Plant identifier App<\/a> has users take a picture of a plant and the app will identify the plant, and provide tidbits of information on the plant. I immediately thought this app would be so beneficial when camping and trying to determine if a plant is poison ivy or not. If you want to improve the health of your plant, the app will identify the plant, then offer ways to treat illness or disease. This beats having to type into a search engine and compare pictures to what you see. Inevitably, this saves you time and mobile data if you are out on remote trails!<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.myfitnesspal.com\/meal-scan\/#:~:text=You'll%20just%20open%20the,need%20to%20snap%20a%20photo.\">Fitness Pal<\/a>\u2019s in-app camera scans meals and logs them. Then, provides educational nutrition information about food choices. Users of fitness pal are familiar with typing in meals or scanning UPCs of food items, then logging serving amounts etc. into the app. However, a recent development in the app, is that now users can take a picture of their meal, and the app will recognize the meal and automatically record food choices. Again, taking a picture reduces the time it takes to manually record, ultimately making the meal tracking process easier and nutrition information quickly accessible.<br><br>I envision in the future, this being more common in education apps. Possibly, if a child takes a picture of a bridge, then there may be an engineering lesson that follows describing how it is built? Snap, search and learn.<br><br>Feature image credit: https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/FWoH2qhLb5I?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditShareLink<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/picturethis-plant-identifier\/id1252497129\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App developers are leveraging cameras on mobile devices in creative ways. Snapping a picture, and having databases match your search, is the new way to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2022\/06\/09\/snap-search-learn\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snap, Search &amp; Learn<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":85356,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}