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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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