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Tongue Drive System is a an assistive technology
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that would enable individuals that have
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severe physical disabilities
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to use their tongue motion
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in order to do things, to go after their daily lives
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so we can take advantage of the abilities of the tongue
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in order to enable this person to
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for example access computers, move a mouse cursor
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on the screen or drive a wheelchair
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The way Tongue Drive works is actually pretty simple idea, we
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attach a tiny magnet on the tongue
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towards the tip of the tongue, as the tongue moves,
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we can sense the changes in the magnetic field.
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And then, our headset
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has a wireless connection to a smartphone that is worn
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by the user. It can detect where and
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in what direction, and at what location,
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the tongue and this tiny magnet is, and
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execute that that comment by sending the proper signals to the wheelchair
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to follow my command.
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This was our first study, both on able-bodied subjects
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the able-bodied volunteers as well as people
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with high level spinal cord injury, by high-level
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these are individuals that are completely paralyzed from neck
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down, in order to see how well it works compared to a
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very popular assistive technology
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the disabled subjects try to do the same task with the Tongue Drive System
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and with Sip-N-Puff, and we looked at their performance
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on average our results show that their performance with the Tongue Drive System
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were
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three times better than the Sip-N-Puff.
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I have put it as my mission to
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help ease these individuals to become more independent, it not only
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lowers their health care costs, it is beneficial to the society,
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it's beneficial to their family members and caregivers,
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but most important of all, it is beneficial to themselves, because they
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cannot go back to
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how they were, but at least I can help them
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to be more independent and self sufficient
