Paper Review-Morse code application for wireless environmental control systems for severely disabled individuals

This was a group experiment for analysis and implementation of morse code generator and its application.It was performed by Saish Desai, Ninad Chitnis, Akash Bangera, Vaibhavi Dichwalkar, Shrinish Donde.



Paper Review-Morse Code Application for Wireless Environmental Control Systems for Severely Disabled Individuals

Publisher-IEEE(Cheng-Hong Yang, Li-Yeh Chuang, Cheng-Huei Yang, and Ching-Hsing Luo)

Published in- IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering ( Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Dec. 2003 )

Summary- Accompanied by the rapid growth of information technology engineering, computers are now used widely in a variety of fields.However, most products are designed for general persons, and are inaccessible to people living with disabilities, unless extra adaptive tools and interfaces were designed for them. Morse code is an adapted access communication tool. So, a  system is designed to enable disabled people  to have an easy access to the  new technology. The proposed system includes four parts: 

1)Input-control module, 

2)Recognition module, 

3)Wireless-control module 

4)Electronic-equipment-control module. 

        Morse code is a simple, fast, and low-cost communication method composed of a series of dots, dashes, and intervals. In this study, they have designed and implemented a human-interface for the environmental control device under a windows environment for handicapped persons whose hand coordination and dexterity are impaired by such ailments as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy etc. This system provides an easy-to-operate environment and allows a handicapped user to access an electronic facility by Morse code. So people with disabilities restricting their body movements with simple actions can control gadgets.