Antonio Mata is the creator of 'RatonEyex', a tool that a webcam and shaking his head allows any company action.You Clinical Informatics, Badajoz (Spain), unselfishly gave of the program, installation, training and telecare
Reading email, enter text, make a phone call over the Internet or just surfing the net are usually performed simple actions anyone on a computer, but it may become unavailable to those who experience severe disabilities. Unreachable until yesterday. A computer pacense has introduced a new software that allows you take any action on a computer to people who, for any type of disabilities do not have mobility in your hands.
Antonio Mata Lozano, the company responsible for Clinical Informatics, Badajoz, for some twenty years, is the creator of RatonEyex and everything behind it. Its software, using a webcam, can handle the computer mouse with very slight movements of the head and without using their hands, thereby facilitating access to new technologies to major disabilities, she says.
This is their commitment to society. "Facilitating the use of technology is my way of helping," said Mata, who puts his program available to anyone who is interested, totally disinterested. But behind this software, which cost him about 800 hours of work, what proudest Mata is the service that gives users of your product. The company bears the cost of the tool, installation, and training that will give the disabled to learn to handle it, besides giving further telecare. A global project (software support) pioneered in Europe, he notes.
Mata stresses can be done "just as you would a person who had no disability" because this software based on artificial vision, through mathematical processes, calculates the movement of the wearer's head so that movement is achieved mouse on the computer screen. His only goal with this tool is that "as universal as possible, to reach the maximum number of people and there is no technical or economic impediment.
Ramon Sampedro was his inspiration. "Seeing the film Mar Adentro I got the idea while the protagonist, a quadriplegic, turning the pages of a book with a stick. Mata made a public demonstration of your product yesterday, International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Badajoz headquarters of the Confederation of the Physically Handicapped State Coordinator of Spain (Cocemfe). Its sole purpose is that the person with severe disability every day is as independent as possible.
Source:El Periódico de Extremadura
___________________________________Reading email, enter text, make a phone call over the Internet or just surfing the net are usually performed simple actions anyone on a computer, but it may become unavailable to those who experience severe disabilities. Unreachable until yesterday. A computer pacense has introduced a new software that allows you take any action on a computer to people who, for any type of disabilities do not have mobility in your hands.
Antonio Mata Lozano, the company responsible for Clinical Informatics, Badajoz, for some twenty years, is the creator of RatonEyex and everything behind it. Its software, using a webcam, can handle the computer mouse with very slight movements of the head and without using their hands, thereby facilitating access to new technologies to major disabilities, she says.
This is their commitment to society. "Facilitating the use of technology is my way of helping," said Mata, who puts his program available to anyone who is interested, totally disinterested. But behind this software, which cost him about 800 hours of work, what proudest Mata is the service that gives users of your product. The company bears the cost of the tool, installation, and training that will give the disabled to learn to handle it, besides giving further telecare. A global project (software support) pioneered in Europe, he notes.
Mata stresses can be done "just as you would a person who had no disability" because this software based on artificial vision, through mathematical processes, calculates the movement of the wearer's head so that movement is achieved mouse on the computer screen. His only goal with this tool is that "as universal as possible, to reach the maximum number of people and there is no technical or economic impediment.
Ramon Sampedro was his inspiration. "Seeing the film Mar Adentro I got the idea while the protagonist, a quadriplegic, turning the pages of a book with a stick. Mata made a public demonstration of your product yesterday, International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Badajoz headquarters of the Confederation of the Physically Handicapped State Coordinator of Spain (Cocemfe). Its sole purpose is that the person with severe disability every day is as independent as possible.
Source:El Periódico de Extremadura
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