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October 31, 2018 Sean Loughran

CHAT – “AT in Education”

CHAT event The next CHAT event run by FreedomTech will

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October 12, 2018 Sean Loughran

Control your mobile phone, PC or TV with your wheelchair joystick

Have you ever considered controlling your computer or mobile devices

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October 5, 2018 Roisin Lynch

My Experience with Voice Recognition

Dragon’s voice recognition software enables people to control their device,

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September 3, 2018 Karl O'Keeffe

Beyond Boundaries: How Interactive and Immersive Media are being used to support people with autism

This is the first in a two part post about

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August 31, 2018 Karl O'Keeffe

Tobii buys SmartBox – What might this mean for computer access and AAC?

Big news (in the AT world anyway) may have arrived

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August 23, 2018 Sean Loughran

Ever thought about using your wheelchair joystick to send an e mail or turn on your lights?

It is easy for someone to assume that their wheelchair

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August 10, 2018 Sean Loughran

Window Opener

Automatic window openers were design to meet the need of

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August 3, 2018 Sean Loughran

Smart blinds

Motorised blinds and curtains have been around for many years,

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July 27, 2018 Sean Loughran

Smart door locks

Most smart locks are installed on mechanical locks such as

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July 20, 2018 Sean Loughran

Video doorbells

Video doorbells bring both convenience and security to your home

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In this video I'll briefly show how to easily build an Optikey Dynamic Keyboard using our build document and an AI assistant that can be used as an alternative interfaces for games or apps. Descriptive Transcript [Video starts showing the optikey on screen keyboard typing "optikey" on a blank document. It then switches to the Special Effect webpage about EyeMine] Narrator: OptiKey is a free on screen keyboard that people control with their eyes, head, mouse, a joystick or a touchscreen. It can do much more than type though. The UK gaming charity Special Effect built EyeMine from it so that people could play Minecraft with their eyes. [The Spotify control keyboards are shown on screen here. 3 keyboards. One to launch Spotify, YouTube or VLC. One to control the apps with buttons like Next previous, play pause and a favorates keyboard.] OptiKey also has dynamic keyboards. They are small text files that describe keyboards, what each key says and what it does, such as pressing a key or opening a programme. It's a similar idea to the grids in software like the Grid 3 or Communicator. In my experience, dynamic keyboards are underused because there's no editor with buttons and menus. You have to write the files yourself. That's where an AI assistant comes in. [Claude AI chat interface, prompt added and edited. Build document uploaded. Screenshot of game controls uploaded] We wrote a build document and instructions with working examples. I'll upload it, then add a short message, the app I want to control, the functions I want and how the person will use it, and a screenshot of the game controls in this case. Although I could just write them down. Or sometimes you could even just ask the AI to find out the keyboard shortcuts for you. A few moments later I have a first draft, a layout, the keyboard files, and the setup steps. I saved the files in a folder. There's an extra step here that you won't need to do because the new prompt asks the AI to give you the file to directly download. If you're an optic key user, put the file in your dynamic keyboards folder or if you just want to use this optickey for this purpose, as we show here in the console, you can set Optikey to look for this keyboard file on opening so we can restart optiKey. And here's our new dynamic keyboard. [Keyboard docked at the bottom of the screen controling the supermario game] It's a bit hit and miss for these browser based games, but for well designed and implemented games and apps this should work pretty solidly.
Optikey Dynamic keyboards: Accessible alternative access for apps and games
Musician Cillian McSweeney gives us a brief history of his life as a musician who uses Assistive Technology. While he tells his story we see a montage of clips of him playing music live and on TV. We see him using a sound beam, switches and eye gaze. and playing with various bands and musicians in different venues. The second half is a screen recording where he shows a free program that he uses called Eye Play Chords. At the end of the video there's a QR code linking to My Breath My Music where the software can be downloaded.
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