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Friday 3 May 2013

iPhone 5S, iPad 5, iPad Mini 2 Could Be Declared The Best Communication Methods For People With Disabilities


Apple’s mobile devices such as Ipad mini, iPad 5, Iphone 5S as well as the iOS software the company has presented for the current year, have the potential of being declared not only the best way of communication there is out there, but they also offer the best communication methods for people with disabilities, and the best features for them to control their iPads or iPhones. 

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Through a patent filling approved in the past couple of days by the United States authorities we were able to find out that the iPhone manufacturer is currently working on a few new features for their devices and the operating system, meant to ease and organize the methods through which different persons who use electronic devices can be contacted.

According to the report posted by Apple Insider, when it will be released for the large public, this system will be able to transfer to the user the most appropriate way through which a certain person can be contacted.



Apparently weighing more than a simple phone call or a message, this feature of the iPhone will be able to determine in an intelligent way, the best method to use for contacting another user. For instance, if the person that you would like to contact is busy or in a meeting and answering the phone would be inappropriate, then the iPhone is going to suggest the caller to send him/her an email or a text message.

In another example, if the contact you are trying to reach is located nearby, Apple’s service is going to suggest you to meet that person as it found him in your area.

In order for the service to work properly, it’s going to use information received either from a monitoring service such as the GPS, or from other devices available like the contact’s personal computer, microphone or camera.

Most likely, this system is going to be integrated in one of iOS’s applications, thus providing for the user a friendly user interface, easy to both manipulate and to program.

In the report posted by Apple Insider we mentioned above, another patent is described, but this time it seems that Apple is thinking about adopting a few specialized methods for the control of a touchscreen input device, but without using the traditional touch hardware.

As we stated in the beginning of the article, these new techniques and services will be useful mostly for the people with certain disabilities and it is expected to demolish the walls between them and Apple’s iPads and iPhones.

Apple’s patent filling states that in order for a user to interfere with a touch display, by using the traditional touch stimulus, this person should hold the device in order to interact with its display.
Furthermore, as the patent claims, that specific user should have the capacity of touching the device’s display and of course in order to know where outside stimulus is needed, the user should also see the display of the device.

Of course, this innovation should further perfect the access techniques and possibilities of Apple, in order to deliver an easier and a more direct way of manipulating more than one touch screens at the same time, and in the same time more functions the devices are currently capable of, some of them including text input, text copy, text cut, text to voice, page scrolling and so on.

The entire system is based on an outside button pad or a joystick that would further interact with the iOS device. These third party systems are going to receive stimulus based commands that will be further sent to the iOS host in order to be interpreted.

The results of the command are going to be sent by the host back to the third party device, interpreted as Braille data or as a sound file. 


Source : iOSdoc  



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