Telephone Access

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Telephone Access
February 24th, 2006

• Client Veronica Heide
• Advisor Paul Thompson
• Team Members
• Bryan Fondrie
• Ashley Huth
• Jon Sass
• David Schurter

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Outline

• Problem Statement
• Background
• Motivation
• Design Requirements
• Proposed Designs
• Design Matrix
• Future Work

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Problem Statement

• Design a system that allows a mobility ,
  visually, and aurally impaired person initiate
  and receive phone calls.

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Background

• Client is visually, hearing, and mobility
  impaired, however, she is very mentally aware.
• The phone is the clients main source of contact
  with friends and family.
• Client is unable to initiate phone calls.
• Currently needs assistance to place calls.

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Design Constraints

• Hearing aid cannot be interfered with
• Patient suffers from tunnel-vision
• Font constraints
• Physical condition similar to that of a
  multiple-sclerosis patient
• Patient is capable of using television remote
• Patient is unable to speak in a commanding voice

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Previous Work

• Wireless headset
• Voice-activation
• Cordless phone

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Proposed Designs

• All designs follow basic flow
• Draw on same database of contacts

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Basic Design

• Create phonebook program using Visual Basic,
  which will serves as an intermediate
• Program will access database of phone numbers
• Calls will be placed through modem
• Program will be connected to current speakerphone

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Display

• Subcategories
• Alphabetical
• Groups
• Lists
• Confirmation screen
• Font Color
• Background Color
• Font Size

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Inputs

• Simple Button Input

• Up and Down Buttons
• Back/Reverse Button
• Enter/Confirm Button

• Pros
• Minimal amount of buttons
• Simple to operate
• Cons
• Needs to be integrated into new program

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Inputs
Joystick Control

• Joystick similar to that of electric wheelchair
• One enter button

• Pros
• Minimal amount of buttons
• Similar to wheelchair control
• Cons
• No current product meets exact needs

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Inputs
Touch screen

• Resistive touch screen
• Similar to that of PDA

• Pros
• Eliminates need for separate input and display
• Cons
• Difficult to operate
• Expensive

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Display Methods

• Laptop
• TV Screen
• PDA (Palm Pilot)

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Design Matrices
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Future Work

• Programming
• Create input
• Integrate input and display
• Testing
• Installation

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Questions?