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Contents 1 Project: MIND Ctrl 1.1 Overview 1.2 Goal (Originally) 1.3 Objective 1.4 Concept 1.5 Architecture Design 1.6 Code Convention 1.7 Quality Management 1.8 Installation 1.9 Languages 1.10 Tools 1.11 Hardware Limitation 1.12 Source Code 1.13 Team Member

Project: MIND Ctrl

Overview

Demographic

Spinal cord injuries occur in approximately 12,000 to 15,000 people per year in the U.S. About 10,000 of these people are permanently paralyzed, and many of the rest die as a result of their injuries. Most spinal cord trauma occurs to young, healthy individuals. Males between 15 and 35 years old are most commonly affected.

http://www.spinal-cord.org

For anyone whose fine motor control is impaired.

Approach

Project:MINDCtrl aims to bridge the usability gap between normal individuals and a physically challenged individual through innovative human interface technology. We are using a Neural Impulse Actuator, NIA, to replace the function of a computer mouse, a popular human interface device. Through this innovative human interfacing device, a severe physically-challenged can overcome fine motor control obstacles currently limiting the target demographic to use the information technology effectively.

Our approach is unique in that we aim to make all applications accessible to physically disabled rather than creating specialized applications, which could be limited by the boundaries of the application itself. Project:MINDCtrl will map any keystrokes to mouse movements from any human interface device to allow the use of accessibility applications. Project:MINDCtrl's use can range from everyday applications such as web browsers and email clients to entertainment applications such as online flash games and videos.

We are also demonstrating the use of other accessibility tools such as Word Predictor. We aim to enable the use of such application where it is needed the most – by severely physically-challenged.

Goal (Originally)

 Enable web surfing through thoughts

Objective

Open up the world of computing to the physically challenge through neural impulse actuating systems

Concept

- Replace conventional mouse with NIA
- Easy to use interface
- Aggregation of all accessible Apps

Architecture Design

Code Convention

Header of the files 

/*******************************************************************/
/* Program : Program name */
/* Name: developer name */
/* Date: date */
/* Description: short description of the program */
/* */
/*******************************************************************/

Quality Management

- Coding Standard/Convention
- Version Control: SVN
- Peer Review/Code Review
- Regression Test

Installation

MINDCtrl
- Extract all files

Firefox Extension
- Open this file with Firefox

Languages

- Java
- C#
- JavaScript

Tools

- Eclipse
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- SVN
- Text Editor
- Firefox

Hardware Limitation

- Need to be in grounded state to use properly
- Inconsistent control when in new environment

Source Code

- SVN Repository

Team Member

1. Panthong Wangperawong
2. Borom Tunwattanapong
3. Pachara Supanakoon
4. Ankur Sheel
5. Ritesh Kadmawala
6. Ryan Romanowski
Mentor: James Hon