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ALS-Assistant
Spark AR effect which enables those suffering from ALS to communicate more effectively.
Created on 21st June 2020
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ALS-Assistant
Spark AR effect which enables those suffering from ALS to communicate more effectively.
The problem ALS-Assistant solves
Majority of ALS patients in developing countries are not able to access and afford medical communication devices. Eventually, they lose their battle to ALS without ever having technology by their side.
Through our effect which can be deployed on FB or Instagram, we aim to help people communicate using basic eye gestures like blinking. We are providing three modes:
- Home:
Navigate - Users can cycle through different features by just BLINKING their eyes.
Confirm - To select a feature, users have to CLOSE BOTH EYES for 1 second. - Words:
We use a collection of 6 categories, each category containing 5 words or emoticons.
Navigate - Users can cycle through different categories by just CLOSING their LEFT or RIGHT eye for 1 second.
Navigate - Users can cycle through different words/emotions by just BLINKING their eyes.
Confirm - Users have to CLOSE BOTH EYES for 1 second to communicate a particular word or emoticon. This will display the confirmed word or emoticon inside the green rectangle present at the top and also plays a sound. - KeyBoard:
We are providing a keyboard with alphanumeric characters and also a few special characters.
It contains 10 rows, each row containing 3 keys/characters.
Navigate - Users can cycle through different rows by just WINKING their LEFT or RIGHT eye.
Confirm - From a selected row, users can select a particular key/character by just CLOSING their LEFT or RIGHT or BOTH EYES for 1 second.
Challenges we ran into
The challenge we ran into was the integration of keyboard feature as our app got stuck, we resolved it through the help of Spark AR Community on FB, where we learnt there was a problem in our interaction patch for the same.
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