NFC Aid for the Visually and Hearing Impaired
From: VTT Technical Research Center - 02/09/2012

Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland are collaborating
with TopTunniste, Tecnalia, and Demokritos on near-field communication
(NFC)-based applications for the visually and hearing impaired. As part of
the HearMeFeelMe project, the partners have used NFC technology to develop a
speech-based item identification system and talking packaging for medicine
and food. They have introduced five applications that enable people to touch
medical information codes on packaging with a mobile phone to download
product and dosage information, and hear it over the phone or a computer. For
example, the Touch 'n' Tag mobile phone app identifies items using voice
memos, with the user touching the NFC label on packaging and dictating
information. Users can playback the memo by touching the label again with the
phone. Another app enables pharmacy staff to store dosage instruction and
other information on a NFC chip, and users can listen to the information at
home. An almanac app enables an elderly person's social network of family
members and nurses to offer reminders of scheduled doses of medicine or
meetings. Users receive a message on their phone and then touch it to a pill
dispenser to notify a family member or nurse of having taken the medicine. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-nfc-aid-visually-impaired.html

Links:
HearMeFeelMe Project
http://www.hearmefeelme.org/

Medication Support Service
http://ttuki.vtt.fi/hmfm/medication.html

Health Monitoring Service
http://ttuki.vtt.fi/hmfm/health.html

Information and Communication Technologies Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing
- Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme
http://www.aal-europe.eu/