[ELECTRON] possibility of short term paid employment

[makerfair]

Glad this is being worked on again. I saw this prototype and thought it most intriguing.


Regards 
Nina Baker 

 

--- On Tue, 2/3/10, Marion Hersh <m.hersh at elec.gla.ac.uk> wrote:


From: Marion Hersh <m.hersh at elec.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: [ELECTRON] possibility of short term paid employment
To: members at electronclub.org
Date: Tuesday, 2 March, 2010, 14:22








Dear All,

I may have a small amount of funding to pay someone for 2 to 4 months between April and the end of July to work on project described below.  If you could be interested in this could you contact me by Thursday - various bureaucratic reasons for this.
Regards
Marion




The aim is to produce a wearable device which supports two-way communication between a deafblind person using the UK deafblind manual alphabet and another person using a small display and keyboard.  A successful undergraduate project a few years ago produced a functional one-way prototype which supported communication from a deafblind person to sighted person.  The proposed research activity would involve the following tasks:
·          Investigating options for input/output combinations for the deafblind person, including relay switch vibrator/pressure sensor combination; pressure sensors and vibro-tactile actuators embedded in a smart fabric; miniature vibrators and motors, possibly in combination with a relay switch.
·          Investigating input/output options for the communication partner, including a miniaturised keyboard, pointer and on-screen keyboard, small LCD text display, possibly as part of a mobile telephone or PDA, and speech output with text-speech conversion and either an earpiece or small loudspeaker.  The text display could also act as the screen for the screen keyboard.  There would be advantages in the development of two versions, one as a self-contained device and another which is compatible with mobile phones with Wifi and/or Bluetooth.
·          Writing software, including for communication between communication partner and deafblind person and for input to and output from mobile phone and other input/output devices.        
·          Investigating durable materials for the glove.
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