The mobile application “Travel and Communication Assistant” supports the mobility and communication of people with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD). This application provides the possibility to people with IDD to independently perform a known route (for example a route from home to the day care center, from home to the baker’s, etc.) under the remote supervision of their caregivers and to communicate with them using text, voice and pictogram messages.
The application that we develop alongside with the rehabilitation center called «Nadezhda» for their children who have all sorts of autistic disorders. The app will help children to visualize their every day activities, to see it whenever they need and to intuitively interact with it. Meanwhile the app will help the staff of the center to store all the children related data they need: their names, their hospital trips, diagnostics, etc.
The application will give us an ability to:
interactive_timetable_for_autists.pdf | Android application (.apk) | Manual
The main prototype of a such service is a Text2Picto web-project KU Leuven for translation text into pictograms