The presentation describes Assistive Tech for People With Disabilities.
There is no doubting the powerful role that technology has played and will continue to play in changing the world in which we live. People with disabilities meet barriers of all types in their day to day life.
However, technology is helping to lower many of these barriers. Overall, technology aims to allow people with disabilities to participate more fully in all aspects of life (home, school and community) and increases their opportunities for education, social interactions, and potential for meaningful employment. Therefore creating greater independence and control among disabled individuals.
7. Liftware is designed to help people with hand
tremor eat more easily.
Tremor – an involuntary shaking of the body or
limbs, as from disease, fear, or weakness.
Engineered to simply your lifestyle
10. Stabilizing technology
Advanced sensors, motors and an
onboard computer work to actively detect
and counteract your tremor.
Rechargeable battery
Battery will last for several days on a
charge.
11. Use Liftware to enjoy anything from soups
and cereals, to salads and pastas.
12. Dot Smartwatch Technology
Vision: With Dot, Disability is not Inability.
Dot is a smartwatch created by a South Korean
startup that finally gives the visually impaired a way
to access digital information.
13. It is the world’s first Braille smartwatch and it
is more affordable than regular e-Braille
devices.
14. Dot helps the blind access messages, tweets,
even books anywhere and at any time.
It can connect via Bluetooth to any
smartphone then retrieve and translate the
text (from an email or messaging app) into
Braille for its owner.
It runs around 5 days on an average after
one charge.
15. Four sets of six dots raise and lower at speeds
of up to 100 times per second in order to
produce four Braille characters at a time.
If that’s too quick, the watch can also slow all
the way down to one Braille character per
second.
16. Problems that Dot proposes to end:-
1% of normal books translated to braille
books.
For the past 20 years, braille readers have
cost between $2000 and $15000. Dot reduces
this cost drastically by being available at a cost
of $290 USD.
95% of blind people give up learning Braille.
Due to cost, most of them are unable to access
braille readers of braille books. Dot wishes to
reduces this percentage.
17. UNI Technology
UNI is a two-way communication
tool for the deaf using gesture and
speech technology.
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19. The world's first easy to use
sign adding software, for those
that want to customize their
sign language dictionaries.
Uni is a tablet and attachment
that leverages motion-sensing
cameras and voice recognition
to translate American Sign
Language into spoken words—
and spoken words into text—in
real time.
21. When UNI comes out, how many
signs/words will it have?
The basic UNI Dictionary at launch will have at
least 2,000 signs.
Users will be able to add their own signs to it, so
the number of signs available will grow over
time.
23. Problems faced by speech impaired
people :-
Speech impaired people have speech and
language disorders which makes them difficult to
communicate with other people.
They have unintelligible pronunciation.
24. How does Talkitt work?
Talkitt translates unintelligible pronunciation
from any language into understandable speech.
Once downloaded, Talkitt software will run
conveniently on smart phones and tablets.
To get the ball rolling, an individual with a speech
disability will record a word and then that person
(or a caregiver with the ability to understand
them) will link the utterance to a word on the
application.
26. Be My Eyes Technology
Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people
with volunteer helpers from around the world via
live video chat
27. A Network of Eyes
Be My Eyes is an app that
connects blind people with
volunteer helpers from around
the world via live video chat
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31. Be My Eyes is all about contributing to
and benefiting from small acts of
kindness, so hop on board and get
involved!
32. FINGER READER TECHNOLOGY
Finger Reader is a
wearable tool to
help read text.
A user can wear
this device on a
finger, then point it
on a body of text,
one line at a time.
33. How it functions:
It has two functions:
To help the visually impaired read printed text on a
book or on an electronic device.
To be used as a language translation tool.
34. The small camera on the Finger Reader will scan
the text and give real-time audio feedback of the
words it detects.
It also notifies the reader via vibrations when it is
at the start of a line, end of a line, moving to a
new line or when the user is moving too far away
from the text baseline.
35. Sesame Phone
The Sesame Phone is the world’s first completely touch-free
Smartphone, designed by and for people with disabilities.
36. Form and function
Sesame Enable has developed Smartphone software for
people who have little or no use of their hands. Users
manipulate the phone’s screen and apps with a combination
of voice commands and slight turns of their head.
37. A combination of voice commands and turns of the head
lets a user manipulate the phone’s screen and apps.
A Touch-Free Smartphone the Disabled Can Control With
Their Heads
39. Features
• Touch-Free Control :- Gesture recognition understands
small head movements, eliminating the need for touch
• Integrated Voice Control :- Use your voice to turn on/off
the phone or switch between applications.
• Download Apps :- Touch-free interface extends to nearly
any app from the Google Play store.
40. Launched in 2012 as a website and
mobile,Web app
Powered by Google Maps
Allows the user to rate several features of local
businesses for accessibility, which are tallied
into an overall star rating.
AXS Map Technology
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42. Imagine being in a wheelchair and suddenly
having the accessible world at your fingertips via
web or mobile phone.
43. Provides people
with disabilities the
freedom to be
spontaneous about
where they eat,
shop, work, and
play.
44. Wendy Levy,
Creative Director
of the MacArthur
Award-winning
Bay Area Video
Coalition, called
AXS Map “game-
changing.
45. A filmmaker with
multiple sclerosis
hopes an app he
developed will help
fellow wheelchair
users make cities
like New York more
accessible.
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47. “The work I do, this app and the film, is
about changing the face of disability. The
civil rights movement, […], the feminist
movement all gained traction. But for
some reason, the disability movement
kind of slowed down,”
- DaSilva.
