Inclusive Technology

There are various assistive products ranging from the simplest ones such as a simple cane to walk around for the blind to the more sophisticated software that could help the autistic patients. While our prototype may fall into one of those simpler categories, it was the concept and ideas that matter most. Our prototype could help the need vision-impaired and the blind to seek out things that they lost, they drop, and with they own hands minimizing the help and pity that they might receive from those able persons hence, the stigmatization. Not only that, the design of our prototype that resemble a key remote and a disguised keychain decoration will further minimize the very stigmatization that most disable people despised of.

USAGE

1. To alert the user of the items they left.

2. To ease the user when seeking lost item.

3. To help the user know the location is the item fell on the ground or misplace.

4. To reduce the stigmatization felt by the vision-impaired population by reducing the dependence on other people.

SCENARIO

SO how our idea did came to be?

It was actually pretty random. One day when one of our members was lurking at the YouTube, seeking for ideas for our product, she c

ame across an extremely random video about Scooby doo where one of the characters Elma dropped her glasses on the ground and she was fumbling for it. Immediately, our member though, “Why don’t we just make a sensor device thingy for the blind or vision impaired just like Elma? “ Hence thatwas how our concept root came to be.

But there was another problem. How and what should it resemble? What kind of device or design that we really wanted for the vision-impaired use? Again, we turned our attention towards the greatest information library we could ever get: the internet with extremely random search. Lo and behold, we saw a car remote was on sale at e-Bay immediately we knew that we want to something as simple as that. Hence our overall prototype design was out.

A pair of devices that complement each other with the design of the car remote plus alarm plus sensor thingy which we eventually named it as Screamer.

However, our prototype still faces some limitation in terms of technologies in term of radio frequency and the accuracy.

Hence proven, in overall, our prototype is assistive concepts that can be implementing to help those vision-impaired and the blind, if given the proper technology. And of course, let us not forget that we did include also a mockup Braille user manual along with some English instructions for the prototype as they come in a complete user friendly package.