Students create app to help the elderly

This question was asked by two students, Nguyen Hoang Phu and Phung Khoi Nguyen (Class 8, Mao Khe 1 Secondary School, Quang Ninh Province) to find the answer. And to support communication with deaf and hard of hearing people the application “The Dead People” was born.

creation from his difficulty

The idea of ​​application development comes from the story of Ms. Khoi Nguyen. Because of his hearing loss, he had difficulty communicating with family members. Sometimes it had to be said over and over again before Nguyen understood.

Starting with a desire to create an application that could help deaf and elderly people when they want to request support. But when built in, this application is also useful for those who want to learn sign language to communicate with deaf people. While studying, the two of you took advantage of time together and explored, mainly afternoons and Sundays.

Through research, the two of you learned that there are many ways to develop communication with deaf people.

It can be integrated communication by learning to listen, read and speak and use signs. The auditory-verbal approach again emphasizes teaching spoken language, listening, lip reading, and using contextual cues to understand and use spoken language. The auditory-verbal method often uses listening to learn to speak and develop language.

The application “The Deaf People” has synthesized the beauty of those methods, both the children have further improved it to make it easier to use for the users.

“The app currently has six functions: content, communication, feedback, practice, chat rooms and connections. And we’re sharing it for everyone to use for free,” Nguyen said.

Hoang Phu said users who do not know sign language can also use the application. They can communicate with the deaf through visual language, just type text in the box which can be converted into visual language. Or you can use a microphone to speak and convert into images so that the deaf can understand.

inspired passion

The two authors of this application have been passionate about computer exploration since childhood, with a special passion for informatics. In addition to computer knowledge in the classroom, at home, both always find more documents and learn more about programming languages ​​to practice doing related things.

Hoang Phu said that the process of researching and creating this application was a bit difficult because it is difficult to find information and material about deaf people online. You both gathered data from whatever sources were available, books and internet and learned more about the applications available in the market.

Khoi Nguyen claimed that from a young age he dreamed of developing applications to help people with disabilities. So, the first time they saw their son staring at the phone and computer, Nguyen’s parents became impatient because they thought “I was busy playing games”. So when they learned it was time the boy was learning, tinkering with creativity online, his parents were very supportive.

“What I’m most looking forward to right now is to be able to bring that application to more users, and to be able to develop applications that run on the iOS operating system,” Nguyen said.

Those two little buddies are still in development to make the most complete version of the app yet to come. In particular, improving the system of communication sentences to help users learn sign language, combining AI technology with video to be able to record a sentence or word to communicate more easily with the deaf To integrate

Furthermore, upgrading the software’s functions with multiple levels and different timings creates excitement for the users. Also, add feedback and suggestions for upgrades with the goal of popularizing the software so that more people know and use the application.