Disability Redefined. Antal Kuthy

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1 Disability Redefined Antal Kuthy

information science 1993 Speech recognition research

2 Company + Antal s Info garage company (US) =kitchen table company (CEE) Telecom and sw engineering and information science 1993 Speech recognition research (IBM) Virtual video banking video communication r&d (Tokyo, NTT)

4 Past Stats/Figures About Disability 15%

5 The New Concept of Disability

6 Past (Bipolar model) THEY US Old-disabled Normal

7 Present (Long tail model) Technology DISABLED (old definition) NORMAL What is normal?

8 Future We are all disabled y x x Technology enables + Extends biological limits x x x x Old-Disabled y x x

9 Adaptability Technology is closing the gap! Ability to Perform Ordinary Tasks A "Disabled" Person A "Normal" Person A "Enabled" Person Year

2 A "Disabled" Person A "Normal" Person A

10 Examples of Disabled Helped by Technology to be Normal

11 1. Assisted Vision Smart Glasses Technology that enables the blind to see by magnifying their remaining sight

12 2. Bertolt Meyer s bionic hand controlled by an iphone app

13 3. Ajit Narayanan - an App that help children with Autism to communicate

14 We are all disabled!

15 Disability fuels Innovation

16 Airplane Example People Can t Fly Airplanes Places We never been Innovation (Culture exchange, trading ) Bring more innovation

17 Assistive Technology

18 An Investment, not a cost Seeds -> forest (investment) : you will have more return in the long run Buy a slice of cake whole cake got smaller (cost): you have temporary satisfaction

Things just happen E-Group private co (1993, Budapest ) E-Group garage company(=kitchen table CEE) E-Group+ : machine learning US, Starbucks project, research extension into video streaming London,

19 Things just happen E-Group private co (1993, Budapest ) E-Group garage company(=kitchen table CEE) E-Group+ : machine learning US, Starbucks project, research extension into video streaming London, Financial Economics & Game Theory Tokyo, Broadband ISDN research /videophone 1992 NTT Catalyst of Hu-China Hitech program in Shenzhen Hong Kong/China, 7 years Founding 97 R&D data security PhD Lab. Young & talented seeding, next big thing

Economics & Game Theory Tokyo, Broadband ISDN research /videophone 1992 NTT Catalyst of Hu-China Hitech

Connecting the Antal s dots E-Group private co (1993, Budapest ) E-Group garage company(=kitchen table CEE) US, Starbucks project, research extension into video streaming London, Financial Economics

20 Connecting the Antal s dots E-Group private co (1993, Budapest ) E-Group garage company(=kitchen table CEE) US, Starbucks project, research extension into video streaming London, Financial Economics & Game Theory Tokyo, ISDN Broadband research /videophone 1992 NTT Catalyst of Hu-China Hitech program in Shenzhen Hong Kong/China, 7 years Young & talented seeding, next big thing Founding 97 R&D data security PhD Lab.

Theory Tokyo, ISDN Broadband research /videophone 1992 NTT Catalyst of Hu-China Hitech program in

21 KONTAKT

22 SINOSZ KONTAKT interpreter services main features Browser support ios, Android application Call center Message queue MOBIX platform Video messages Tracking Riports Text messages, chat

23 SINOSZ KONTAKT interpreter services topology Sign language interpreter

24 SINOSZ KONTAKT We understand each other!

25 SINOSZ KONTAKT We understand each other!

26 SINOSZ KONTAKT We understand each other!

27 SINOSZ KONTAKT - User Trends SINOSZ members age group Increase in the number of registered users

28 SINOSZ KONTAKT Quality of service Good Excellent Medium Adequate Inadequate

29 On Site v.s. KONTAKT insights Call types in hours Interpreted call Direct call to each other All calls Number of interpretation requested SINOSZ personal, on-site services KONTAKT interpreter services

30 SINOSZ KONTAKT interpreter services 15 minutes costs estimated huge efficiency increase With KONTAKT interpreter services X HUF SINOSZ personal, on-site services 5X HUF Cost (15 minutes) On-site Service KONTAKT

31 The Future of Technology

32 Unobtrusive Technology People don t want barriers Desktop PC Tablet and other new devices

33 Channel Present DEAF Normal Human assistant Near Future DEAF Intelligent Channel Machine assistant Normal DEAF New Devices Intelligent Channel Normal Fusion with Devices Far future DEAF DEAF Devices Devices Natural Language Communication Or POWER of THOUGHTS? Devices Devices Normal Normal

becoming less visible Tablets, Wearables Wearing and carrying

34 Unobtrusive Technology Creating devices that match our life, not changing our lives to match new technology Devices are becoming less visible Tablets, Wearables Wearing and carrying multiple devices is ordinary Embeded devices + intelligent environment

Examples of Future Technology Myo https://www.thalmic.com/myo/ The Antal Bee Microsoft Project http://research.microsoft.

35 Examples of Future Technology Myo The Antal Bee Microsoft Project Google Glass for the Blind Automatic Sign language to speech

36 Soft Exoskeleton??

37 What s next?...

38 Thank You! Antal Kuthy CEO, E-Group ICT Software

Mobile Cloud Computing. Chamitha de Alwis, PhD Senior Lecturer University of Sri Jayewardenepura chamitha@sjp.ac.lk

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