Mobile Based Interaction System for the Paralyzed People

New methods and technologies are needed to face the various kinds of present and future challenges like addressing the problems or issues related to disabled people. We have focused on enabling quadriplegic’s entertainment in the present work. By utilizing the sensing and processing capabilities of today’s mobile devices it is possible to capture rich quantitative data about the usage and context of mobile and ubiquitous applications in the field. In this paper, we are proposing a tool which is using one of these capabilities of the mobile device which is the accelerometer sensors. The mobile having accelerometer sensors fitted on the head of the quadriplegic will be used to track the head gestures made. Paralyzed people are those people whose body movements are restricted due to injury of brain or some other malfunction of parts of brain or the spinal cord. The tool will capture the gesture and interpret it or recognize the gesture and perform the required action i.e. mapped on to the operations of the computer in front of the subject. The tool thus aids the mobility-restricted person to use the computer and entertain himself/herself when alone at home. The final part of the paper describes the experimentation goals, the total process and preliminary results. Future work directions are also indicated.