Using Kinect, looking to help people with hearing disabilities to learn to read. SPECIAL / Agency ID
- Create a dictionary with simple words for application development
The program of the Universidad Veracruzana identifies words and interacts with objects so Funny
The system works with the support of Kinect, controller juevo used for consoles Xbox . This helps identifcar words and making the person interacts with objects. The Faculty of Statistics and Informatics of the University desarrolo a dictionary using the Flash program. The application allows people to learn to read through the relationship between symbols, images and words.
Using the Kinect, “people with hearing disabilities can touch objects with his hands, such as an Xbox game, the idea is to reduce the digital divide in these people and make be independent, “said Alfonso Sánchez Orea, Professor of UV.
The dictionary contains words used in everyday life, “what they see on the street and at home, like a glass, a chair or a table; objects that move with hand and create a dynamic activity that motivates a person to continue learning, “said the researcher.
” It’s so simple you just need to install the software, connect the Kinect via USB, placed in front (at a distance considered to visualize the movements) and start practicing. For example, “select the letter A and the word” Squirrel “, then the image that represents it appears,” said Sánchez Orea.
THE DATA
Orea Sánchez said that according to statistics, 2010 in Mexico 694 000 464 hearing impaired people live. Of these only 28.6 per cent completed their primary; 29.9 employed in agriculture and only 3.6 percent are office workers.
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