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Mindtree Foundation – Assistive Technologies 2016-17
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Overview
Topics
Delivered in the Past
Solutions in Progress
Plan for the future
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Terminologies
Assistive Technology
Inclusive Design
Universal Design
Barrier Free Design
• Buildings, Environments, and Products accessible for all regardless of age, ability, etc.
• Enhancing the existing products or designing new products by including the accessibility features for PWD.
• Products and Solutions specific to PWD to help them to do their activities. Mindtree Incubated Assistive Technology solutions may be referred to as MIGHTY (Mindtree Incubated Guided Humanitarian Technology)
• 1961 – a compendium of over 11 years of disability ergonomic research published.
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Assistive Technology Solutions | Overview
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Our Out-Reach End Users
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1. Mobility Aids
2. Home interventions 6. Access to School
5. Social interactions
3. Corrective Surgery & Support
4. Barrier-Free Home
7. Barrier-Free School
8. Educational Services
Children with Disabilities |Priorities
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Assistive Technology |Key Projects Solutions Initiators
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• Analog-Digital-Interface-based on Theremin principle - is a Computer Access switch for Cerebral Palsy affected children to type computers.
• It generates left-click only through the USB port.
• With the help of on-screen keyboard, the user can type documents.
• 200 units were shipped to Vidyasagar school, Chennai.
ADITI-C
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• A simple tactile based Computer Access switch for Cerebral Palsy affected children to type computers.
• It generates left-click only through the USB port.
• With the help of on-screen keyboard, the user can type documents.
• Samples were shipped to Chetana, Chennai.
Finger Switch
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• A Smiley Ball based Computer Access switch for Cerebral Palsy affected children to type computers.
• It generates left-click only through the USB port.
• With the help of on-screen keyboard, the user can type documents.
• Samples were shipped to Chetana, Chennai.
Mindtree Incubated Guided Humanitarian Technology (MIGHTY)Smiley Switch
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• Kommunicator-Audio-Visual-Interface using Picture-to-Speech software in Android.
• For children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, ADHD, and Mentally retarded children to communicate with others.
• Possible to use with ADITI-C for CP children
• Delivered in Google Play Store.
KAVI-PTS
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• This is a .net based Microsoft Windows software used with Microsoft KINECT to train and improve the Gaits of children with Cerebral Palsy.
• First prototype was demonstrated.
• Second version is being developed.
GaitWay In Progress
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Reader
Objective: To enable people with
low or no vision to read printed
books at an affordable price and in
Indian languages.
Voice messages accessibility to the user
Offline operations (no internet needed)
Ability to customize for individual users on languages, speed of speech, translation requirements
Mean Confidence Index text prediction to ensure 85% or more accurate text conversion
Flexible to read any languages as supported by the smartphone
Supports Bluetooth or wired headset and mouse
Reader (w): Same as Reader except this runs in Windows desktop
In Progress
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vitamin-D In Progress
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VIKÁS |Visual Intervention Kit for Children with Autism
Cognitive Visual Dysfunction: The visual
disturbances or images degradation due to
“Cerebral Damages” in the brain
source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC504914/?page=1
Mindtree along with AEH bringing up a
WORLD-CLASS Visual Intervention Kit for
Children with Autism
Helps parents or care takers to conduct
optical and perceptual function exercises at
AFFORDABLE PRICES at home
In Progress
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G-Ear | Guided Ear
They can type text and it is
spoken out to the listeners
Listen-only, speak, and listen +
speak modes
Runs in any Android based
smartphones or tablets
In Progress Helps hearing-impaired people to actively participate in a conversation where conventional
hearing-aids won’t help
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Voh-I-See |
Generates sub-titles automatically for any
streaming or stored videos played on a
Windows machine
Helps hearing-impaired people to understand
a normal video made for main-stream people
Very useful for hearing-impaired people to
understand tutorial videos during their training
sessions
In Progress
Voices that I can See
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Future | AT Solutions Planned In Future
Cognitive computing based context sensitive tool-deck for PWD
Mathematical and scientific expressions reader and Flow chart reader for low vision and visually
impaired students
Refreshable tactile display to project images from a printed book on a touch pad for visually-
impaired people
Support for all Indian languages in the Reader solution for low-vision and visually-impaired people
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