Assistive Technology

Vision
To create an environment for Special Children and Differently Abled Person to excel and survive globally through appropriate Information Assistive Technologies.

Mission

To service consumers with products customised to their needs.
To impart assessment and training in use of assistive technology in an effort to facilitate community integration and improve quality of life.
To utilize the skills of every engineering department of the college for the development of Assistive Technology.
To develop the product in vernacular languages

Objective
The main aim to establish “Centre of Excellence in Assistive Technology” is to offer Assistive Technology Services that provide a variety of technical assistance and computer applications for people with disabilities. The objective also includes creating an awareness among the affected rural community to use assistive technology through this centre.

Research Activities

Social Welfare: The centre develops projects to crate gadgets and kits for the ease and betterment of special and disable person life and thereby helping societal welfare
Academic Research - The centre supports and fosters academic research in the field of Assistive technologies and devices and promotes research proposals and projects.
Knowledge Dissemination: The centre disseminates research reports/findings to key stakeholders including academics through a variety of channels viz., media outreach, participation in academic and professional conferences, authored articles, workshops, etc.
Industry Connect: The centre connects with the industry by collaborating with them in doing projects and also in conducting workshops and seminars for the audience that is keen to track the progress of data science and AI in practice.
Consulting Activities: The centre facilitates the businesses by connecting them with researchers who are working on cutting edge problems and can help solve challenging business problems.
Centre for awareness: The center creates awareness among the affected rural community to use the assistive technology products and gadgets developed by establishing a Centre for communication.

Projects Carried at CEAT:

FUNDED PROJECTS
With the support from Technology Intervention for Elderly and Disabled (TIDE) programme under Department of Science & technology we have developed the teaching tools for Autistic children, Hearing impaired children and Intellectually disabled person with 2D and 3D animations, real time videos supported with Augmented reality in order to improve their learning capabilities and to lead a quality life.

S. No	Major / Minor	Funding Agency	Amount	Ongoing / Completed
1.	ITAAC: Interactive teaching Aid for Autistic children	DST -TIDE	41.60 Lakhs	Completed (2014-2016)
2.	Visfel: Visualization Framework to Enhance the Learning of Hearing Impaired Children	DST-TIDE	28.56 Lakhs	Completed (2016-2018)
3.	Enhanced Interactive and Assistive online examination system for visually impaired	UGC – Minor Grant	1,34,000	Completed (2017-2019)
4.	e-Tool to support Intellectually Disabled during COVID-19 Pandemic	DST-TIDE	-	Completed (2020)
5.	S.M.A.R.T. for Alizemer Disease	TNS & TCN	10000	Completed
6.	e –TLSID: Tool to impart Livelihood Skills for Intellectually Disabled	DST -TIDE	57.08 Lakhs	Ongoing (2019 –2022)
Total Amount			128.68 Lakhs

STUDENT PROJECTS:

S.NO	PROJECT TITLE	Year
1.	Interactive E-Learning Kit To Improve The Self Behaviour Of Autistic Children Using Augmented Reality	2014-2015
2.	Braille Board -This gadget is designed to help the physically impaired to feed inputs directly to smart devices and retrieve the output data from the smart device in the form of Braille characters.	2017-2018
3.	Remote monitoring of cognitively impaired individuals	2017-2018
4.	Sign Translator -Translates any text to Sign language – Enables independent E-learning Environment for Hearing Impaired	2018-2019
5.	RATSEL: A game based learning application for the dyslexic using augmented reality	2019-2020
6.	Voice Enabled secure door and home automation system based on IOT System for visually challenged people.	2019-2020
7.	Smart mobile for the Disabled -Converts the voice commands of the visually challenged into actions for the effective use of mobile phones	2019-2020
8.	Stylus For Visually Challenged people - Enables blind people to feel their writing using pen. It contains a Carriage lever to indicate end of line and sense the writer by producing sound	2019-2020
9	Automated Baby Cry Detector For Hearing Impaired Parents	2021-2022
10.	Meditrack-Medical Application To Assist Visually Impaired People	2021-2022

E-TLSID

Awareness Stall in Rehab exhibition conducted by DST in Pune

Training offered:

S.No	Institute	Year	Nature of Programme
1	Training ITAAC kit to AIKYA & NEYAM Special School	2017-2018	Awareness Program
2.	Hands-on training for Autism Student	2017-2018	Workshop towards vocational skills
3.	Training ITAAC kit Audhura	2016-2017	Awareness Program
4.	Training in NIEPMD	2018-2019	Workshop for syllabus framing
5	Training at NIEPMD - Chennai	2019-2021	Workshop for syllabus framing

Research Publications & Awards:

S.Poonkuzhali,PriyaVijay,D.SornaShanthi and E.Mohana, “Interactive Novelty Kit in Vernaular Language to Diagonize Functional Capablities of Autistic Children” in CAASR 2nd International Conference on Innovative Engineering & Technologies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 5th -6th 2016.
Dr.S.Poonkuzhali, Priya Vijay, Sorna Shanthi and Sheik Mohamed Meera,(2019) published a book chapter “ Interactive Teaching Aid for Autistic Children” in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with their Associated Conditions: Assessment & Therapeutic Interventions, published by AKINIK Publication, New Delhi.

TCS Best Project Awards:

S.No	Student Name	Project Title	Year
1.	Karthick Raj V.R Muruga Padmanaban S Murugesan S	Interactive E-Learning Kit To Improve The Self Behaviour Of Autistic Children Using Augmented Reality	2011-15
2.	Poornima, Sanjana J, Sushmitha	Opti Ko Math	2012-16

Linkages

S.No	Domain Expert Details	Designation organisation	Specific linkage with purpose & inputs received.
1.	Dr.Himangshu Das 9884141451	Director NIEPMD-Chennai	Done the brainstorming session with domain experts & project investigators for Identification of Trades & Curriculum Framing
2.	Neelam Bansal neelambansal.lko@gmail.com 9140825636	Assistant Professor CRC, Lucknow	Identification of task for each trade. Task analysis for each task listed for the trades, as the set of instructions to carry out animation. Field Testing & Validation of Prototype
3.	NitikaMendiratta nitikamendiratta@yahoo.com 9560047069	Director, Society for Advance Study in Rehabilitation, Bal Kalyan Bhawan, A-40B, Dayal Bagh, Surajkund, Faridabad, Haryana - 121009	Prepared Assessment Checklist(with ratings, inference etc.) for Generic skill based on Adapted VAPS model. Validation of Prototype
4.	Vikas Ray Rehabprofvikas@rediffmail.com 9811962970	Director, Learning Ladder, B-14, Greater Kailash enclave -1, Near TATA Communications New Delhi - 110048	Prepared Assessment Checklist(with ratings, inference etc.) for Pretraining module domains defined by SCPwD. Validation of Prototype
5.	Diana Lil Philip dianalilphilip@yahoo.com 9810540336	Special Educator Somerville School, Vasundhara Enclave, New Delhi- 110096	Preparing Pre requisite assessment checklist for trades Validation of Prototype
6.	Parvathy Viswanath	Director, AIKYA Learning Centre, special school for children with special needs – Mylapore-Chennai	Curriculum Design and Evaluation ITAAC e-kit Design and Implementation(Activity Description and Evaluation of Prototype) Field Testing

EQUIPMENTS AVAILABLE:

EQUIPMENT LIST
1	Multimedia PC
2	Server
3	Laptop
4	360 Kinect sensor
5	Canon Camera with Lens, Tripod
6	Graphics Card Render Device
7	Laptop
8	360 Kinect sensor
9	Canon Camera with Lens, Tripod
10	Graphics Card Render Device
11	Scanner
12	External HDD
13	Printer
14	Audio Interface
15	AR/VR Tool
16	Adobe Pack
17	3D Particle Design Tool
18	3D Frame Capture Pack
19	3D Rendering Pack

OUTCOME
This centre helps to develop affordable devices and provides services, strategies, and practices that help people with disabilities live more independent and productive lives in their daily life roles.

Employment generation-Person with ID will become employable and can achieve through placement.
Learning Automation-Multimedia based learning aid to support individuals, special educators, parent and other stake holders.
Interactivity- Attractive, accessible and user-friendly to all (even for rural areas) through vernacular language training.
Economic-Cost effective solution for the consumers.
Scalability-Solutions downloadable in any digital media and hence suitable for mass production and easy to deliver a larger group at the same time.
Flexibility-Trades can be chosen based on interest, assessment and community resources.
Sustainability Plan-After this project deployment and dissemination, we plan to organize workshop at various special schools with nominal fee structure.
Provides Improved Quality of life for intellectually disabled person under BOP population
Digital India Initiative-Supports sugamya bharat abhiyan since the application is accessible in mobile phones too.

Team Members

Dr. S. Poonkuzhali – Center Head
Dr. Priya Vijay – Faculty Coordinator
Mrs.Sorna Shanthi – Faculty Coordinator