AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Quality Education, Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
Smartphone App, deaf-blind, Inclusive design, braille interface, digitalization
COUNTRY
India
DESIGNED BY
Samsung with Sense International India
WEBSITE
https://www.samsung.com/in/microsite/good-vibes/
Samsung Good Vibes
A communication app for the deafblind
Samsung Good Vibes is a two-way communication app that allows the deafblind to send and receive messages with friends, family or anybody else through their smartphones. It translates Morse Code input into text or voice and vice versa.
Deafblind is a term that is used when a person has a combination of impaired vision and hearing.
An app with two interfaces.For people with normal sight and hearing. Anyone can send a message, by typing or speaking. It has a standard chat/voice interface that delivers the message to the deafblind person as Morse Code vibrations.
For the deafblind. A deafblind person can send a message from the app by tapping on the screen using Morse Code—where all letters of the English alphabet are combinations of dots and dashes. The letters can be input as short tap for a dot and long press for a dash. Likewise, incoming messages can be understood as vibrations by the deafblind, where small vibration means a dot and long vibration means a dash.