IIT-K boy develops app to help elderly use smartphones with ease

IIT-K boy develops app to help elderly use smartphones with ease: An understudy of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT–K) has built up a cell phone application that will improve the telephone's useability for the elderly.

Training News The application works by upgrading the telephone keypad alongside the UI and the symbols that show up on the screen. It improves the interface and guarantees a smooth writing knowledge for more seasoned individuals.

Created and composed by Shashank Arya, the 'glass launcher' application won the silver honor at Uxplorer 2016 — an outline rivalry for understudies, sorted out in Pune on September 9 by YUJ plan.

"The application will help the elderly by diminishing the issues they confront while utilizing cell phones," said Shashank. The youthful trailblazer included, "according to look into, the "QWERTY" keypad (common in cell phones) was presented for two-hand writing on typewriters. The example was gone for encouraging simplicity of sentence arrangement.

Presently, because of its recognition, it is as yet being utilized as a part of all gadgets. Nonetheless, elderly individuals experience issues in utilizing this keypad for writing messages on their cell phones."

The glass launcher application resets the keypad to the customary "abc" group (as found in fundamental telephones) with which the elderly are well known. The application additionally resets the shading tone of the screen to green, along these lines upgrading perceivability for individuals with visual impairment.

"Research, testing and planning – all took around four months," shared Shashank, who is currently chipping away at another application that will direct understudies and help them get a reasonable vision of a profession that suits their aptitudes and in addition interests.

For building up this application, Shashank took proposals from analysts and different specialists.