Two Spanish facilitate the use of PC for people with reduced mobility with the Wii Remote

The Wii Remote could help people with reduced mobility to operate a computer thanks to Project Wiimo. According publishes the Information Service and Scientific News on your website, it is a technology developed by two students at the University of Burgos as final thesis project.

Wiimo Project, created by students and Fernando Alvaro Arbaiza Ibeas and led by University Professor Pedro Garcia Ortega, consists of software that takes advantage of wireless technologies in command of the Nintendo console to connect to a sticker of a square centimeter is placed on the body part that the user is able to move.

Through a system of infrared and bluetooth, and without requiring the sticker is located in front of the computer screen, the sticker conveys the movements the user makes with the body part that is able to move the mouse pointer on the screen.

The main advantages of this system compared to other existing stresses that it is a wireless technology that further reduces the mobility of the user with extra weights. Also important is that to access any of the icons on the screen with the stylus is not necessary 'click' on it, if you just dwell on it a few seconds.

The project stands out Wiimo recipient who has a clear "that validates it and gives it value. And is that one of its first applications has been in people who have a very serious motor disability, but retain their intelligence and maintain mobility remains voluntary.

In particular, by the time the system have received two students from the Association of Parents of Persons with Cerebral Palsy. One of them has been able to handle a power wheelchair for mobility by providing only one hand, thanks to Wiimo.

Source: Hoy Tecnología (spanish)

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