Disability Redefined
Antal Kuthy
[email protected]
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)
Past Stats/Figures About Disability
15%
The New Concept of Disability
Past
(Bipolar model)
„THEY”
„US”
Old-disabled
„Normal”
Present
(Long tail model)
Technology
DISABLED
(old definition)
„NORMAL”
What is „normal”?
Future
We are all disabled
y
Technology enables +
Extends biological limits
x
x
x
x
x
Old-Disabled
x
y
x
x
Technology is closing the gap!
Ability to Perform Ordinary Tasks
10
Adaptability
8
6
A "Disabled" Person
4
A "Normal" Person
2
A "Enabled" Person
0
1980
1990
2010
Year
2020
Examples of “Disabled” Helped by
Technology to be “Normal”
1. Assisted Vision Smart Glasses
Technology that enables the blind to see by magnifying
their remaining sight
2. Bertolt Meyer’s bionic hand controlled by an
iPhone app
3. Ajit Narayanan - an App that help children with
Autism to communicate
We are all disabled!
Disability fuels Innovation
Airplane Example
People Can’t Fly
Airplanes
Places We never been
Innovation (Culture exchange, trading …)
Bring more
innovation
Assistive Technology
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+’ : machine
learning
London, Financial
Economics & Game
Theory
E-Group garage
company(=kitchen
table ©CEE)
US, Starbucks project,
research extension
into video streaming
Tokyo, Broadband
ISDN 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.
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.
KONTAKT
SINOSZ KONTAKT interpreter services main features
Browser
support
Message
queue
iOS,
Android
application
Call center
MOBIX
platform
Video
messages
Text
messages,
chat
Tracking
Riports
SINOSZ KONTAKT interpreter services topology
Sign language
interpreter
SINOSZ KONTAKT – We understand each other!
SINOSZ KONTAKT – We understand each other!
SINOSZ KONTAKT – We understand each other!
SINOSZ KONTAKT - User Trends
SINOSZ members age group
Increase in the number of registered users
SINOSZ KONTAKT – Quality of service
Good
Excellent
Medium
Adequate
Inadequate
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
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
The Future of Technology
Unobtrusive Technology
People don’t want barriers
Desktop PC
Tablet and other new devices
Channel
DEAF
Present
„Normal”
Human assistant
Near Future
Intelligent Channel
DEAF
DEAF
„Normal”
Intelligent Channel
New
Devices
Machine assistant
Fusion with Devices
Devices
DEAF
„POWER
of
THOUGHTS ?”
„Normal”
Devices
Far future
Natural Language
Communication
Or
Devices
Devices
DEAF
„Normal”
„Normal”
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.com/enus/collaboration/stories/kinectforsignlanguage_cs.pdf
Google Glass for the Blind
Automatic Sign language to speech
Soft Exoskeleton
•
?
?
What’s next?...
Thank You !
Antal Kuthy
CEO, E-Group ICT Software
[email protected]