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IBM will create a mobile phones for the elderly and uneducated

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Use of modern mobile calls from people fairly quick response and a certain level of technical literacy. But it is precisely these skills are not enough people older or poorly educated. The solution of this problem will the company IBM, together with the Indian National Institute of Design and the Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. The joint project will be aimed at creating an interface that would allow these categories of users' communications capabilities to implement the device completely, and not focus exclusively on voice communication.

It is assumed that created the software will be open and designed for free distribution among government organizations and private businessmen around the world. Create a simple interface for people with disabilities become part of the opening of joint research, which involves IBM and Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, and since 2009, and the National Institute of Design in India. The focus of the research will be aimed at ensuring older people or not having sufficient education access to modern information resources (primarily the internet). The latter is assumed that the system will not only provide them with modern means of communication, which can be used without restrictions, but also to fill some of the shortcomings of education.

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