We are happy to present you today our new application. MyKeyboDroid is a text-to-speech based on a dynamic keyboard. It allows people physically impared writing and speaking. It also facilitates the acquisition of literacy skills by young children or with difficulties. By default it has a QWERTY keyboard and an optimized keyboard with most frequent letters easily clickable. It also allows two types of writing: syllabic and letter by letter.
You have more information and the necessary downloads in MyKeyboDroid.
We have recently received great news. With the software “BlueStacks” Android can run on our PC, and as Google Play has been added, our applications can be installed and use in a PC. To do this you simply need to download the software at http://www.bluestacks.com/, have a Gmail account to download applications from the Google Play, and follow a few clear steps.
In case you want to access the “sdcard” in this software is made through a file explorer, as can be ASTRO (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro&hl=es). In case you want to add, modify, etc.., any file of our applications (Picts. Xml, etc.), in its own “sdcard” there is a folder named “bstfolder” containing data from our PC, such as documents , images, etc., through which information can be exchanged between the software and the PC itself. This way, you can also install applications that are not available in Google Play.
Mac users may experience, sometimes, problems installing applications from Google Play, but we have found the solution in the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxhHjKIA0g4. Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us.
Accegal team has visited Aceesa (Special Education Regional Association of Holy Christ of Love) to assess whether our applications were suitable to a user of this center. During testing we found that the user had trouble selecting Picts in PictoDroid Lite, to correct this problem we added the possibility of selecting the pictogram by pressing and releasing, in addition to the existing one of pressing only.
We’ve uploaded to Google Play and our web new PictoDroid Lite version:
Added the option of picto selection by pressing and releasing.
Jonathan Juncal, Accegal main developer, has won with his Master Thesis, VirtualTec, the first prize at the 12th Contest of Technology Project, form A. These awards have been organized by Expourense and the Higher School of Computer Engineering of the University de Vigo.
Congratulations to Jonathan for his great work and this new prize awarded to his Master Thesis.
More information here (in Gallician).
Accegal directors will be tomorrow at the First Conference of Good Practices in Technology for Social Inclusion presenting our project. More information here.
We are happy to present you today our new application. SubTitleMe is an architecture that allows hearing impaired people to have on their mobile devices the synchronized subtitles of a film at the cinema.
This architecture consists of a server, that must be installed in the cinema, and Android mobile application that displays subtitles synchronized with the film.
You have more information and the necessary downloads in SubTileMe webpage.
PictoDroid Lite App was awarded as Best ICT Project with Social Benefits at the Galician Telecommunications Night 2012 hosted by the Galician Association of Telecommunication Engineers (AETG) and driven by Galician Agency for Technological Modernization (AMTEGA).
In the next picture you can see Enrique Costa, codirector of ACCEGAL project, collecting the award from Mar Pereira, director of AMTEGA.
In the next picture you can see the award plaque.
In the video below the award presentation at the Galician Telecommunications Night (in Galician).
Enrique Costa Montenegro and Fátima Mª García Doval will be at DEA-TecnoNEEt Congress () on behalf of ACCEGAL this thusday, friday and saturday. On friday we will actually give a tutorial on our apps “ACCEGAL: Communication on Android mobile devices”
We will happily show you how our apps work and we can discuss our ongoing projects.
See you there!
