AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Reduced Inequality
KEYWORDS
Dyslexia, Smart Glasses
COUNTRY
Japan
DESIGNED BY
Keisuke Shimakage - OTON GLASS
WEBSITE
http://otonglass.org
OTON GLASS
Smart glasses to help people living with dyslexia
Keisuke Shimakage from the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Japan designed a pair of smart glasses to help people who have difficulty reading. Sufferers of dyslexia often have difficulty with specific language skills such as reading and pronouncing words. While the OTON GLASS smart glasses will not solve these problems, they will help sufferers by identifying words and saying them through an earpiece.
The glasses have two small cameras and an earpiece, which connect to a computer (RPI) installed in them. The lens is half mirror and reflects the user’s eye movements. One camera tracks the eye movements and detects blinks as a trigger, while the other camera captures words. The computer processes these images and detects words. The artificial voice technology changes the words into sound and reads out the words for the user through the earpiece.
The design was a national runner-up for the 2016 James Dyson Award.