LipSync Helps Paralyzed People Use Computers and Mobile Devices
From: IEEE The Institute - 09/14/2017
By: Amanda Davis

The Neil Squire Society and the Google Foundation developed the
mouth-controlled joystick

Giving people with disabilities better access to the world around them is the
aim of the Neil Squire Society, a nonprofit in Burnaby, BC, Canada. The
organization is named after a man who became paralyzed in the early 1980s
from injuries he suffered in a car accident. To help him communicate,
Squire's cousin, an engineer, connected an Apple IIE computer to a Morse code
transmitter that Squire could control using "sip and puff" technology, which
sends electrical signals by sipping and puffing on a tube. The device became
known as the Joust.

Last year the society teamed up with the Google Foundation to build a more
advanced version of Joust: the LipSync, a joystick that allows a person to
control a computer cursor with minimal head and neck movements. A hollow
mouthpiece is attached to a sensor on the joystick that requires only slight
pressure to move a cursor on a computer screen. Users can "click" the left
and right mouse buttons by inhaling or exhaling into the mouthpiece.

Read the entire article at:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/lipsync-helps-paralyzed-people-use-computers-and-mobile-devices

Links:
LipSync - Mouth input device for smartphones and tablets (video 3:44)
https://youtu.be/adpv7nWJDu0

LipSync (with video 1:00)
http://www.makersmakingchange.com/lipsync

Neil Squire Society
https://www.neilsquire.ca

Neil Squire Society - LipSync
http://www.neilsquire.ca/research-development/projects-activities/lipsync

Related:
Special Report: Assistive Technology
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/static/special-report-assistive-tech

Three Life-Changing Innovations for People with Disabilities
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/consumer-electronics/three-lifechanging-innovations-for-people-with-disabilities

Open Source AT Library
http://www.makersmakingchange.com/open-source-repository

Jim & Isabelle, Makers Making Change: Access Makeathon (video 2:38)
https://youtu.be/03ZXF1uK0qs

IEEE Joins the Maker Movement
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/ieee-joins-the-maker-movement

Makers Making Change website
http://www.makersmakingchange.com