5 July 2007
An associate professor in Denmark has delivered a paper on a tongue-based computer interface system developed for the disabled to access computers and new technologies.
Speaking at the ICCHP conference Lotte N. S. Andreasen Struijk of the Center for Sensory Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, discusses an innovative inductive tongue computer interface (ITCI) to facilitate tongue-activated commands.
A special feature of this device that gives it an edge over traditional methods is that it is partly implantable, due to the activation unit. Activation requires very little force, which means it is faster and less exhausting. In addition, it allows incorporation of as many activation buttons as the number of characters in the alphabet. Another major benefit of ITCS is that it is unaffected by tongue palatal-pressures associated with eating and speaking.
There is also scope for further developing the tongue interface device to facilitate the incorporation of wireless control.
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