Last Tuesday, I visited the HVS school again with the prototype of my Camera4K project. Honestly, I should have made more during spring break but I only added some audio such as a camera burst sound from a canon powershot my client loves, and redesigned interface so that to be used easily without any additional instructions.
Prototype
 
album mode shooting mode
(click to see some descriptions)
Interface
 
There was a hardware problem that all of the joysticks, keyboards and buttons the HVS school had for kids didn't use an USB connection that was an only hardware interface for my laptop. However, my prototype works with all kind of keyboard emulators so I used another joystick with an USB interface and JoyToKey software.
 
K, my client, and J tested the prototype. J also used an auto-electric-wheelchair and he used a stick with gum at the end of it to press buttons for operate a computer. My laptop crashed several times by unknown reasons. However, K and J tested it well.
Without any instructions, K started to take a picture with a joystick and a on-screen keyboard. He took pictures and typed captions of them. Because he used only the joystick and the big button, he couldn't use the prototype fast, but he could operate it with the same speed as his web browsing.
After taking several pictures, K suddenly moved his left hand to his jaws difficulty and then moved his right hand more difficultly to push the button to take a picture. The scene was very impressive and his face in the picture was full of joy.
I promised him make a better camera system. A therapist of him said that he shouted, "THAT'S SO COOL" when he went out from the room with her.
Next Step
- prepare and change the program for various input devices and computers
- add a delete function, add a save images function
- make a profile function and each one's own album
- make an interface for the flickr website
- research the camera part and get one |
Commented by John S at 2007/04/03 15:58 
