Photo album for disabled people wins prize
A concept for a picture show program that has been developed by KTH student Frida Löfqvist has won first prize in the AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge – an international competition. The program is intended for use by older or disabled people.
Frida Löfqvists winning idea – Imagine – is an extremely simple picture show program that can be controlled via Internet. The idea is that it will be possible to show photo albums to individuals who have impaired cognitive abilities or, for some other reason, are not able to use a computer.
After its success in this competition, Imagine may be developed into software. The goal of the AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge is to develop software that can increase access to Internet for people with different disabilities.
Totally 163 entries took part in the competition of which three were awarded prizes. The full competition consists of three phases. In the final in June in Las Vegas up to three finished software programmes may be presented.
Frida Löfqvist is studying a Master of Science in Computer Engineering at KTH and is specialising in human-computer interaction.
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Christer Gummeson