ASK Messaging: An iPad app with a special touch
From: Michigan Engineer - Spring 2011 - page 24
By: Virginia Caprisi

A young woman with cerebral palsy walks into a Starbucks and, despite her
compromised motor skills and speech difficulties, uses an iPad to do what
she’s never done before – she orders a cup of coffee by herself. That’s a
scene that a Michigan Engineering student team hopes to see in the very near
future when it completes testing on a special iPad app. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.engin.umich.edu/newscenter/pubs/engineer/engineerfeatures/askmessaging/

Links:
Michigan Engineering Students Develop Mobile Communications Technology for Cerebral Palsy Patients 
http://forum.engin.umich.edu/2010/11/mobile-communications-technology-for.html

Video:
iPad App for Cerebral Palsy Patients Developed by Michigan Engineering Students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItgJ9PsvGQQ

CS Students Take Second Place with "Accessible Messaging" iPad App
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2011/Accessible_Messaging.html

Time for a check up? Get out your iPhone. (starts at 2:11)
http://www.engineering.com/Videos/ProductDesignChannel/VideoId/2556/Time-For-A-Check-Up--Get-Out-Your-IPhone.aspx

Pitch Slides:
http://498w11.pbworks.com/w/page/38735798/ASK

ASK Messaging
http://bmic.org/umc/2011-university-mobile-challenge/ask-messaging/

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Students Develop iPad App to Assist Users with Fine Motor Disabilities
From: University of Michiagn EECS News - 2010-2011

ASK Applications, a company in the making composed of computer science
students, has created ASK Messaging, an iPad app that helps individuals with
fine motor control disabilities or vision impairment and who have extreme
difficulties in using keyboard interfaces to successfully navigate menus and
compose and send messages. The app has been tested at C.S. Mott Children’s
Hospital and at The Bridge School in California. In March 2010, the ASK team
won the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Bay Area Pitch Competition and $1000.
The team also took second place in the University Mobile Challenge Pitch
Competition at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Most
recently, the team took first place overall in the Spring 2011 U-M Mobile
Apps Challenge. Team members are undergrads Erica Christensen, Kimberly
Hunter, Scott Jenks, Chelsea LeBlanc, Chris McMeeking, and Michelle Noronha. 

Source:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/EECSNews/EECSNews10.pdf (page 20)