Disability Assist Messaging

Inspiration

In a smart city not only will technology advance, but those who are not capable of enjoying the current technology must also be brought up to par.

What it does

Uses 5 gestures to create messages which could potentially be sent.

How I built it

Using c++ to accept a 5 bit binary sequence, a fist as a 0 and fingers spread as a 1, which is assigned to all 26 letters as well as "." "," "!" "?" ";" and a space.

Challenges I ran into

Limitations in the Myo Armband included either locks in the current position or large delays between a change in hand position to the Myo recognizing the change. These challenges hindered optimized results

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

A working product which would potentially be used by someone who lacks the fine motor skill needed to text on a smart phone

What I learned

What's next for Disability Assist Messaging

This project could be developed into a smart phone app through the android or ios SDKs which contain the same functions used for this version. Predictive text could also be included to reduce message creation time.

Built With

• c++
• myo