Lesson 2 Humans and Technology
Teen-Designed Tech for Improving Access
At least one billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, ____ some form of disability.
In order to fully function in ____ life, they need to have the same physical and social access to the places, goods, and services in their communities as everyone else.
For many of them, ____, access still remains an issue.
Here are two teenagers who presented new inventions to ____ the issue at an international science competition.
3D Braille Map
____ thinking about her homework, Seoyoung Jun closed one eye and successfully picked up her pencil holder.
At that moment, she realized that orienting herself in a 3D ____ didn’t require both eyes.
This ____ her.
With research, she learned that the brain can process 3D information without any ____ at all.
And with that, the ____ for a new device for people with visual disabilities was born.
Those who have lost sight get their ____ information mainly from touch, not vision.
She based her ____ navigation device on this fact.
This little device sends a beam of infrared light to gather 3D ____ about what may lie around the user, including walls and furniture.
The bounced beam conveys that information to the ____, which then raises little pins to indicate where those obstacles are.
By “____” the positions and heights of those pins, the user can understand the arrangement of structures and objects lying ahead and navigate around them.
The heart of this device
The heart of this ____ is a 3D depth sensor connected to a small computer.
Seoyoung coded the computer to control the nine motors lined up in three rows of three so that each motor ____ move a pin up and down.
The ____ can scan eighteen blocks of space before it, each 0.06 m3 in size.
When it detects an obstacle in any of these blocks, the corresponding pin rises to either the middle or high position, ____ on the height of the obstacle.
By running your hand over the nine pins, ____ can tell where the obstacles are and how high they are.
When Seoyoung’s device worked for the ____ time, she didn’t believe it.
To be sure it wasn’t a mistake, she ____ it off and rebooted it.
____ it worked again, she started screaming with joy.
It had ____ seven long months of research, building, and testing.
She imagines a future version that ____ be connected to a smartphone, with more pins and more height positions.
Sign Language-to-Speech App
As a coder, Nand Vinchhi wanted to invent ____ that didn’t require a mechanical device.
One ____, he was brainstorming with friends, and the group came up with an idea for an app that could translate sign language.
In the end, they decided not to develop it, but ____ couldn’t stop thinking about the translator.
In just a few months, he developed an app based on artificial intelligence for translating American Sign Language (ASL) in real ____.
Nand’s app was basically a ____ app for sign language, where hand movements corresponded to speech.
The hardest ____ was figuring out how to make the app recognize hand gestures.
At times, he felt he was ____.
When that happened, he would go to ____.
For Nand, sleeping on it paid ____.
He decided to focus on the body parts which are ____ in signing, such as individual fingertips.
Using a machine-learning program, he then taught the app to identify those ____ points in the videos he took.
When the user runs the app,
When the user runs the app, ____ are captured by the camera.
Then, the app uses an algorithm to match the movements with words in ASL, which are turned into text and then spoken ____.
____ to Nand, his system now translates signs with 90.4% accuracy, and the delay from signing to translation is only about three-tenths of a second.
He imagines the technology could someday become part of ____ communication platforms.
That ____ help ASL speakers communicate with those who don’t know the language.
____ these inventions have in common is a creative use of technology to enhance the daily lives of people with disabilities.
Their efforts will go a long way ____ a more accessible world for all.
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