Technology to help the blind.
Unit 3C: ICT Meeting Special Needs
I have researched Mike Johns
Introduction
This person that I'm going to do my work on is Mr. M Johns a man who lost his eyes when he was an age of 21 and now he is 42 and this person has wife and two sons. Mike Johns is a writer, he writes about love story and he writes true stories. If we talk about Blindness we know that in some ways of Blindness there is a chance of seeing again and then there is not a change of seeing. Blindness is the inability to see anything. Some people are called blind, even though they can see a little bit. This is because they cannot see clearly. But only see fuzzy shapes or colours. In modern countries, few young people are blind. Blindness is mostly caused by diseases of old people, like cataracts and trachoma. Sometimes, though, people are born blind. Some people are color blind, which means they can see, but cannot tell certain colours apart. When people are blind they use such things as the alphabet in braille and guard dogs to do every day life things.
Technology 1 Braille Watch
Braille watches have raised dots that allow a blind person to tell the time. Simply flip up the cover and feel the dots on the dial. There are different types of Braille Watches like the voice one that tells you the time when you need it and it is in digital and normally time. In Braille watches you can save appointments and notes and you can save birthdays and you can record voice and in also can tell you the temperature.
Advantages
o It's is small and the right size to fit a hand and says it in voice the time and date
o Help people with appointments and helps them to not forget time and date and if they got anything information
o Tell you everything in English, 99 different languages
o It is like a person that is standing next to the blind person and helping
Disadvantages
o Not waterproof
o Easily breaks
o Something's very disturbing
o Gets lost
o One of the bad thing about Braille Watches is that it only reminds you once and that's bad because maybe the person is fast a sleep and can't hear it so they will mess the alarm
How the technology meets their personal needs
The technology meets his needs of timing and going to places and this person Mike Johns wake up every day 6 am to pray and wash him self. Mike Johns like's sports so he sets his Braille Watch at the right time and when it is time he listen to the sport like if it is football or something else and he need to set the time to every of his medicine time 24 7.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their personal needs?
The technology allows him to do thing on time because he lives in a house with his wife and 2 sons but there are not all the time in the house, his wife works as a teacher and the 2 sons they are in university and it is very effectively for him and this gives them more free time to do more writing up story's and plays. I think there should be a better technology that tell the blind person the way to talk and don't crash to thing or some kind of technology to help him write quickly ands fast.
How the technology meets their social needs
The technology meets Mike Johns needs because he is the person who wake's up all of his family to get really for work or school. Next door to him is one of his close friends and after his family goes they way to work or school then Mike goes to his friends house to have fun and to talk about the football match. In his social life he calls back to his town to ask if everyone is okay and every day from 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm he reads ...
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How the technology meets their social needs
The technology meets Mike Johns needs because he is the person who wake's up all of his family to get really for work or school. Next door to him is one of his close friends and after his family goes they way to work or school then Mike goes to his friends house to have fun and to talk about the football match. In his social life he calls back to his town to ask if everyone is okay and every day from 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm he reads story to small children the age on 7 and under and sometime he reads his story too and in the library he sells his new and old books too. And his Braille Watch helps him to get on time in the library and leave on time to go home before it gets dark.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their social needs?
The technology allows him to do all the things he has got to do in his social life and the way he what's to spend he time with his friends and small kids. The Braille Watch help's him to remind him about his friend's birthday and party and remind him of especial days. I think that for remind him about his friend the Braille Watch is a better and high technology to used for remember dates and times.
How the technology meets their needs in employment
Mike Johns is a writer and writes story's for himself and sells them himself too and he needs to keep up with the time so he needs to do he writing at one time and his other things in other time so he needs to put a time from what time to what time that he is going to do his writing and what time to do his other job's in the house and the technology meets the needs of Mike from using his time from the Braille Watch to tell him what time it is and if it is the time to stop work and do take rest.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their work needs?
The technology allow him to do his work in time to time but not using all the time on one thing but to move on and doing different thing. I think there might be a better thing then Braille Watch and I might be something like for telling the time and telling when you will finish writing the line or the whole book.
Technology 2 Braille Notetaker
The Iris kb line offers portable and compact personal data assistants equipped with Braille keyboards and refreshable Braille displays of 20 or 40 cells. This line is part of a range of new generation Braille devices by EuroBraille. These devices incorporate a broad range of applications and are available with either a 128 MB internal storage capacity 256 MB capacity. The series of four keys on both sides of the keyboard, used for navigation, have been placed as closely as possible to the keyboard to minimise hand movements. This helps achieve a more ergonomic design aimed at reducing your risk of repetitive motion injuries. Spreadsheet applications allow you to work with data and formulas in cells that are identified by line and column, Calculator applications allow you to make basic calculations, File Explorer application facilitate handling files and folders in a tree structure, Calendar application pages to organise your appointments and tasks, Contacts pages to easily store and retrieve all your contact information when you need it and more.
Advantages
o Braille Display with 20 or 40 characters
o QWERTY Keyboard
o 8-Key command keyboard
o Lithium-ion battery for fast recharge: 10 hours of autonomy
o Serial port for PC connection; Parallel port for Braille and black printing
o VGA port to visualise iris documents on a computer monitor
o RJ45 port for connection to Ethernet network
RJ11 port for connection to a telephone network
o 2 USB ports (type A)
Loudspeaker + Audio - in (microphone) and Audio-out (headphones)
o 12V supply
o It is very light 1,7 kg
o Dimensions: 24 cm x 20 cm x 3,8 cm
o 12-volt main charger
o it is like an computer with everything like USB reader/writer that is WinCE compatible (Floppy disk, memory, USB Key, etc)
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Disadvantages
o Cost's to much = £3,382
o slow writing
o The charge run out quickly
o It takes lots of time to charge up
How the technology meets their personal needs
This meets the needs of this person Mike Johns with his writing stores and poems. The ways this meets the needs for him because it is easier for him to write on the Braille Notetaker then using a paper and pen. This helps him not only with his story and poem but is helps him to write speech. Is help him with drop down notes on is notetaker.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their personal needs?
This meets Mike with his personal life because his puts notes in his Notetaker and the notes that he puts down they all are personal and the Notetaker is for personal need like his had got.
How the technology meets their social needs
The technology meets Mike with his social needs because his friends talks about they social live and Mike drop down notes. His write to his friends if they go out of the country and he writes to them if he wants thing so he friends can being him. He put the Braille Notetaker into the computer and uses it to search are website and news.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their social needs?
The way the Braille Notetaker helps him to search or to listen to the later news by connection the Braille Notetaker into the computer and as he goes to any website then the computer and the Braille Notetaker will tell him and he buys clothes of the internet but the compute tell him all the details of the clothes and the looks and colour and sizes.
How the technology meets their needs in employment
This technology meets his needs of work because his write to the worker that works for him and tell them that his new book is finish and to finish the drawing on the cover and maybe the other pictures and get the poster really.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their work needs?
In there the technology helps him with his work, such as he write to the person who r in charge on his company saying what to do and how to do it. The way he writes to that person by emailing to him and telling him how to do it.
Technology 3 Talking Typer for Windows
Computer keyboarding and typing training software that speaks and displays lessons on screen. Includes drills, practice, and typing games. Adjustable to the student's level of skill and sight impairment. Recommended ages: 6 and older. Computer keyboarding and typing training software that speaks and displays lessons on screen. Includes drills, practice, and typing games. Adjustable to the student's level of skill and sight impairment. Recommended ages: 6 and older. Built from the ground up with blind and visually impaired students in mind, Talking Typing Teacher features digitized human speech, which is used everywhere in the program. This means that whether you're navigating menus, changing options, managing dozens of student accounts, or visiting the Help Desk, you'll enjoy listening to Eager Eddie read the screen. What makes TTT so special, however, is that each and every typing lesson or practice session is read aloud with clear, concise pre-recorded dialog. Put quite simply, you won't need to worry about trying to understand synthetic speech when you're learning to type with TTT. The only thing Text-To-Speech is really used for is to read your name and play back text you type into Workbook, a fully-functional talking word processor that ships with Talking Typing Teacher.
Advantages
o Built-in human speech (in the form MarvelTalk) that narrates the entire program
o Complete interaction with both sound and full-colour animations
o Detailed lesson curriculum designed with three levels of instruction
o Full support for multiple student use. This means that you can have more than one student set up with the program, and TTT will pull up each student's record when he or she logs in.
o Three levels of instruction that not only change the number of keys that are taught, but also how the instructions are worded and presented
o Lessons that teach and reinforce typing, with careful emphasis on posture and correct typing habits
o Lessons consisting of spoken and displayed instructions, practice drills, and final reminders
o CD-ROM Drive
o Intel Pentium @400 MHz Equivalent or Higher
o Keyboard
o Sound Card
o 96MB RAM
Disadvantages
o Very old
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How the technology meets their personal needs
This meets the person needs because he uses the computer a lot and the Talking Typer for Windows helps him a lot too because the Talking Typer for Windows talks as it types or moves. It is quickly for Mike to use it because as he moves the mouse move to places to places and that way it is easer to search for website on the internet.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their personal needs?
It helps this person to use the computer and check for things like a normally person but in this technology Talking Typer for Windows it is like if you move the mouse of the computer moves with you around and when it moves around with you it say too, like it is in the search box now or it has goes to the other page or it doesn't comes up. So this person Mike Johns is finding this technology very easy and helpful because to him it seem like his is really using the computer and the internet by himself without anyone helps.
How the technology meets their social needs
The technology meets the needs of Mike Johns because he uses the Talking Typer for Windows to help him with using the internet and using the internet for emailing his friends or using the MSN message to catch with friends and family. He uses the internet to buy clothes and things for house and if there is no one in the house then he can buy food or drink or anything else from the internet from ASDA and then ASDA will devilry to his door.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their social needs?
This technology help him with his social needs because he talks to friends and family from using the internet and he does that by go the MSN message or emailing to them. He uses the emailing to email his friends out side of the country to and the way he buy food, drink or clothes from the internet by just going to the website and buying it with his card and then the them will devilry it to your door.
How the technology meets their needs in employment
In employment this helps him to keep his jobs as most jobs would not take him if he can't speak properly. This talking typer makes his life easier. The main thing about this is that it allows him to speak. Without this talking typer he would have not gotten the job he has right now, without this technology he could have only got jobs like cleaning or jobs that don't contain talking. This technology meets his needs as it helps him to get a good job in life, to help himself and his family.
An evaluation of how well the technology meets their work needs?
This technology meets this persons needs in work as it will help him to talk to other people by just typing the letters on the keyboard. He needs this technology so people understands him and so he can tell other people what to do in order to get his work done.
Shabeer Toor 10N
