By using your eyebrow or smile now people with speech or physical disabilities can now operate their Android-power smartphones hands-free as per Google. Two new tools put machine learning and front-facing cameras on smartphones to work detecting face and eye movements.
Users can scan their phone screen and select a task by smiling, raising eyebrows, opening their mouth, or looking to the left, right or up.
Google Said :
“To make Android more accessible for everyone, we’re launching new tools that make it easier to control your phone and communicate using facial gestures,”.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 61 million adults in the United States live with disabilities which has push Google and rivals Apple and Microsoft to make products and services more accessible to them.
Google said :
“Every day, people use voice commands, like ‘Hey Google’, or their hands to navigate their phones,”.
“But that’s not always possible for people with severe motor and speech disabilities.”
The changes are the result of two new features :
- “Camera Switches,” which lets people use their faces instead of swipes and taps to interact with smartphones.
- “Project Activate,” a new Android application which allows people to use those gestures to trigger an action, like having a phone play a recorded phrase, send a text, or make a call.
Google said :
“Now it’s possible for anyone to use eye movements and facial gestures that are customised to their range of movement to navigate their phone — sans hands and voice,”.
The free Activate app is available in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States at the Google Play shop.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft have consistently roll out innovations that make Internet technology more accessible to people with disabilities or who find that age has made some tasks, such as reading, more difficult.
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