9/9/2016 1 Welcome to the revolution (in AT) How our smartphones, tablets and virtual assistants are facilitating safety and independence. QR Example At the end of this session participants will be able to describe how Jim’s Place can be utilized as a resource to assist with clients occupational participation and independence. At the end of this session participants will be able to demonstrate the ability to search St Ambrose’s web site to access apps for using IPads and smartphones to increase independence and functioning . At the end of this session participants will be able to describe the pros and cons of various voice interaction systems and equipment (Dragon, Google, Echo, Siri and microphone selection (Dragon Systems ) to facilitate independence. At the end of this session participants will be able to describe the accessibility features that many smart phones can provide their clients to increase environmental control and communication skills. Main Objectives What: Jim’s Place Named in honor of Jim O’Rourke
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Welcome to the revolution (in AT) How our smartphones, tablets and virtual assistants are facilitating safety and independence.
QR Example
At the end of this session participants will be able to describe how Jim’s Place can be utilized as a resource to assist with clients occupational participation and independence.
At the end of this session participants will be able to demonstrate the ability to search St Ambrose’s web site to access apps for using IPads and smartphones to increase independence and functioning .
At the end of this session participants will be able to describe the pros and cons of various voice interaction systems and equipment (Dragon, Google, Echo, Siri and microphone selection (Dragon Systems ) to facilitate independence.
At the end of this session participants will be able to describe the accessibility features that many smart phones can provide their clients to increase environmental control and communication skills.
Change is very obvious (some of my clients ECUs have been replaced by apps on smart phones)
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Insteon hub Fade: Fall Detector
Holding the phone or tablet:
Many hands free holders are easily converted
for WC phone holders.
Ram Motorcycle
Mount for phones
IPad / phone holder Rubber band works too…
Be wary of long goosenecks or long loc‐line
Phone requirements/problems
Voice control has finally arrived. (At least as good as what was pictured in
the 1st Star Trek series.)
Keyword was “Computer” Reply was “Working” click, click buzz…
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Amazon Echo and Dot
Insteon hub (controlled by Echo)
Read any Kindle, Play any Amazon Music ??
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A cloud based system so you have to be “connected”.
Wake by stating not “Computer” but “Alexia” (or Amazon)
No voice training (does have, but I have never used it)
Echo platform is growing almost daily with "skills"
Home control, TV, alarms, timers, shopping, schedule, paging a phone (not dialing, yet)
Echo can be the device generating the "noise" and yet can still "hear your voice" (my guess is destructive interference, the physics that powers noise cancelling headsets ???)
(Echo has multi‐microphones)
Echo and the cloud (Alexia)
Many good smartphones have an Infrared blaster to provide TV/AV control (Galaxy YES!... IPhone NO!)
Echo and your phone also has Bluetooth
Anymote is built to use both the phone and/or your Echo
Can only 1.25 million devices
Can be placed to control many devices!
Controlling a Smartphone with Echo
Echo can recognize an “Anymote” command and send it through your smart phone IR port or use the Anymotedevice to flood an entire room with IR signals so one can control multi‐devices.
Example: “Alexia, tell anymote to power on my Coby”
Echo recognizes it’s name
Looks to see that device is enabled
Bluetooth command to the smart phone
Smart phone (or Ipad) sends IR message to the anymote remote
Voice control of a TV (and others)
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Will play any music in your Amazon music library (Bluetooth Speakers)
Will stream Amazon prime music
Will “read” any kindle book (free) or Amazon Audible (not free)
Shopping list or to do list
Page a phone
Organizing/Calendar
Podcasts and radio
Cooking (how to and timers)
Appliance control (lights, fan, call lights)
Echo $180, Dot $89 (Echo: 1 day in a nursing home Dot: 12 Hours)
Other Echo Skills
Nuance (Dragon, Siri, On‐star) OK google, S‐voice
Dragon still the best to write a book but you will need a quiet room and a consistent microphone input. (powerful computer and a newer version of Dragon)
Free Dragon for I pad works well as does the driving assistant for Galaxy phones (S voice) (I‐phones too, I guess)
Background noise still a problem but less that it has been.
Noise vs. Voice is the key (Noise cancelling USB microphone helps)
Voice Control; How good; What can it do, Limitations
Amazon Echo (right off the shelf) works with IPads, smart phones and home control systems and is a great example of integration of systems.
Many choices for assistive equipment for the home today.
(Control4, Crestron, AMX, BitWise, RTI, Savant, Elang!, Total Control and a few others). HINT choose a system that plays well with others.
Dish network is a system that does not allow for integration with other systems, uses radio waves, not IR for control in systems such as the Hopper/Joey systems. (be careful)
Nothing on the market today can provide adaptive control.
Today: Integration of systems is the key
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Tobii‐Dynavox
Needs a good set‐up and constant distance to work
PC EYE $4K (eye mouse) need computer skills
I15 23$ (Total eye system) no prior skills needed
Less fatiguing than head control, can be more frustrating
Does not work as well with eye glasses or if light is reflected off the glasses
Eye Tracking systems
Head movement control
SmartNav ($500) Eviacam (free)
Head tracking (head movement control)
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Common request
Most need fine motor control
Voice control is not the way!
Navtracker IR
Evicam (free head tracker)
Eye tracking systems (Tobii) $$$
(and quasi‐functional)
VR (available today and growing)
Games (Occupation vs. Vocation)
VR Gear (Galaxy YES!... IPhone NO!)
Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive
Social experiences
Escape or have an; “Out of wheel chair experience”