Aphasia
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Revision as of 22:19, 15 July 2009
Three years ago Jane had a stroke which made her unable to speak. Her intelligence is unaffected, but she cannot find the words.
How can she use an OpenMoko mobile phone to communicate with her husband when the words are gone? When her husband is on the phone, asking - What are you doing? Do you want to have lunch with me?
To answer his first question about what she is doing, she’s using the OpenMoko phone to send him a small picture, showing a cup of tea. And then, a second picture with a heart, and he answers he loves her too. Then he asks if they can meet, he want to have a cup of tea as well, and she answers by sending him her GPS location (the OpenMoko phone is a GPS reciever) and he can hear the street address of the small restaurant where she is right now. If there was a phone that made all this possible, I bet she would want one. You've read a short story, capturing what this project is all about -- to build a very special mobile phone.
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Concept
This page describes the concept of the Aphasia Openmoko. Why and how it started. How it can help. Doctor's comments. Ideas and general brainstorming. Feel free to add and change this page at will.
Innovation happens elsewhere
It all started in the 90's, a friend of mine asked if I could make a Windows-program that he could use to connect his home pc to his office pc so that he could communicate with his son, suffering from Dawns syndrome and unable to use an ordinary phone. His son knew pictograms and could communicate by sending small pictures to his dad.
Are you a Developer
Do you want to help create a unique phone? Start learning Erlang. The language is tailored to telecom applications by Ericsson. The startup time is 45 seconds and there is no latency what so ever. Erlang is soft real time with concurrency and 5 nines (some people says 9 nines).
Are you a User
TBD
Q&A
How did Jane find a picture of a cup of tea so quickly?
From an almost unlimited amount of small pictures she could find the cup_of_tea picture in only a few seconds.
A: The pictures available on the OpenMoko screen depends on where you are. When Jane opened the door and stepped inside the little tea house the pictures on her OpenMoko changed to a set of pictures with some relevance to the situation she had to handle at that location. Tea brands, Buy, Pay the bill, Restroom, Taxi, Sugar, Lemon, you got he idea. And the heart is always there for her loved ones.
So everybody 's got to have an OpenMoko phone then?
Can Jane talk to a regular mobile/house phone or does it have to be an OpenMoko at both ends?
A: Jane can call or pick up a call from any phone. When Jane is touching a picture on the OpenMoko screen a sound player in the phone plays a sound snippet associated to that picture. Pointing at the picture is starting a sound player in the handset. The person Jane is talking to can hear the sound from the file being played.
