Juan Carlos Lopez

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• Juan Carlos Lopez

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The use of todays technologies

• Video conference
• See what I see
• SMS
• Speech Recognition

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SMS Helps Deaf and Hearing Impared

• Text-Connect helps City College, Deaf and
  Hearing Impaired Support Service.
• Emergency SMS service to help the deaf
• A new 999 service that will allow deaf, hearing
  impaired and speech impaired people to contact
  emergency services via text messaging has been
  launched by West Yorkshire Police
• The use of a mobile phone gives the deaf the
  ability to send SMSs and hence be able to
  communicate with ease and efficiency. According
  to the Malta Deaf Association the use of SMS has
  drastically increased the level of interactivity
  that hearing impaired people can achieve in our
  society.
• Deaf student gets diploma with SMS help
• "But I communicated with my lecturers and friends
  using Short Messaging Service (SMS). I took notes
  and if there was a need to clarify anything, I
  would just SMS my lecturers or friends."

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Speech Recognition

• Hear incoming and outgoing calls
• Check logs for missed calls, received calls, or
  merely review dialed numbers
• Access incoming caller ID information
• Manage contacts as well as dial numbers from its
  directory
• Check for appointments
• Access calendar information
• Write and read text messages
• Write, read, and send e-mails
• Write notes and journal entries
• Create to-do lists
• Set alarms
• Hear the battery status as well as signal
  strength
• Produce multi-media files using a sound and video
  recorder
• Take, send, or store pictures using digital
  camera
• Synchronize all contact and calendar details
  between the phone and PC.
• Use your phone as a wireless modem by connecting
  to your PC via BlueTooth, Infra-Red, or USB to
  manage e-mail or surf the web
• Perform day to day calculations using accessible
  four-function calculator
• Optional MP3 player

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Textphones
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What is RFID?
RFID The fundamentals
Reader
Tags

• What is RFID?
• A means of identifying and tracking a unique
  object or person using a radio frequency
  transmission
• Tags (or transponders) that store information,
  which can be transmitted wirelessly in an
  automated fashion
• Readers (or interrogators) both stationary and
  hand-held read/write information from/to tags

• How does it operate?
• RFID tags are affixed to objects and stored
  information may be written and rewritten to an
  embedded chip in the tag
• Tags can be read remotely when they detect a
  radio frequency signal from a reader over a range
  of distances
• Readers then either send tag information over the
  enterprise network to back-end systems for
  processing or display it to the end user

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RFID-Equipped Robots Used as Guide Dogs

• A professor in computer science at the Utah State
  University (USU) is building robots to help
  people with disabilities
• "Simply speaking, we are trying to develop a
  robot for use as a mobile grocery cart used for
  the blind in supermarkets," he said. "The robot
  would meet the blind person at the door and, by
  the push of a button, would lead the person to
  different areas of the store."

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The use of RFID for guidance
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RFID for virtual browsing
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Interacting with the physical/internet world
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Basic Principle