Google Goggles Usability Testing

Written By Brian Gharala

I worked in a team to test Google Goggles usability and accuracy in museums. While visiting art museums in New Mexico and Maryland, I moderated field testing. I concluded that Google Goggles is:

  • not great at recognizing objects (results returned were not relevant);

  • very good at OCR and recognizing text (mostly relevant items returned);

  • delivers useful search results for better known paintings and photographs; but

  • sculptures are more difficult to identify.

Brian Gharala
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