“A school is the place to take lessons.But it would be useless

if students cannot see and hear…”

Make education better to the deaf-blind without obstacles

SEJONG UNIV. team : EN#605Chan-kyu Lim, Kyoung-hoon Min, Byoung-su Lim, Ji-hyeon

Jeong

Republic of Korea

Imagine a world where“technology enables better education for

all”Education

If you couldn’t see …If you couldn’t hear ...

who has duplicated handicaps

They cannot see and hear or sometimes cannot speak

either.

Ways to communicate with handicaps

Finger Braille system

Tactile sign language

Finger letter system

Braille system

Finger Braille System

①②③ ④ ⑥⑤●●

① ④② ⑤③ ⑥Need a person to interpret

Enables the deaf-blinds to learn

①②③④ ⑥⑤

Listen

①②③ ④ ⑥⑤① ③②④

⑤⑥V

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Speak

Glove device

A teacher

PC

Main functions

A deaf-blind student

messenger noteE-book

Taking lessons

Self study

A teacher

Workflow

PCA deaf-blind student

Finger code glove

Speech

SignalSignal

Speech

The postscript

This user is Young chan, Cho who is the first deaf-blind university student in

Korea.

The user’s opinion

He had lost his visual sense by the inspection of troops and then his auditory sense had died out in his

childhood.He knows how to speak.

System ArchitectureP

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Glove Device Application Web Service

Motor Control

Key Combination

Bluetooth

Note

Messenger

e - Book

.NET Framework 3.0

Visual Studio 2005 IIS 6.0

8051 Assembly

Speech SDK 5.3

C Language

Distributed System for disabled

Using Technology

Speech Recognition

C# / WPF

Benefits

No interpreterLess time delay

Less fatigueHuge educational data

Low price

Makes the education of the deaf-blinds

Application Field

Broadcast media Navigation

Direction SignalSoundinformation

Text Signal

Internet Application

We believe the handicapped could destroy the barriers Communicate with the outside world

Q&A

deaf blind dumb Speech(speak)

Speech(liste

n)

Reading e-book

Taking

notes

Messenger

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

○ ○ Ⅹ Ⅹ ○ ○ ○ ○

Ⅹ ○ ○ ○ Ⅹ ○ ○ ○

○ Ⅹ ○ ○ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ

○ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ ○ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ

Ⅹ ○ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ ○ ○ ○

Ⅹ Ⅹ ○ ○ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ

Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ Ⅹ

Applicable functions through the kinds of impediment

POWER

$ 5.69

$ 40.21

Bluetooth

$ 3.69

MCU

$ 14.69

Moter

Total Price : $ 105.79

The period of adaptation

Improvement of reception: After about 17~18 hours, he could recognize each

signals

Comparison of speed

Braille system

The number of the targets

(about population)

1/6000 =

1,000,000(In the world)

This information originate in the Japanese research

Glove Device Braille Device

Target The deaf-blinds The blinds

SizeHand size(W*L)

* 2cm(H)

25.5cm(W) * 15.5cm(L)

* 5.0cm(H)

Price $105.79 $4900

Weight 240g 1.2kg

Position of

SendingThe finger tips The finger tips

Position of

ReceiveBack of the finger One finger tips

Using System Finger braille braille