On 8-10 March, teams of programmers gathered together with a shared goal of helping people who face challenges due to disabilities every day. They had a broad range of technological tools at their disposal, including speech processing, cloud services, 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, and smart hardware building blocks, to support their solutions.
Team Vision emerged as the winner of the competition with their AI assistant project for people with visual impairments. The proposed mobile app "sees" for the user, and with a single photo taken and predefined or directly spoken questions, the user can get the answers they need from the app.
The Blindtooth team came in second place, developing an app for the blind. The app helps the blind locate each other more easily at a predetermined meeting point. Users connect their phones to each other via a hotspot, and by combining GPS and Wi-Fi, the phone then uses a compass to navigate one user to the other with the help of audio signals.
The Plajta team was awarded third place by the jury for their project "One-handed joystick." The team built the joystick themselves, and it will allow physically challenged individuals to slow down and easily control the playing of computer games.