Development of entertainment and social interaction applications to improve Quality of Life (QoL) of people with Cerebral Palsy

In this paper we present an open framework that can be used to develop applications related to entertainment and social interaction in order to improve the QoL of people with Cerebral Palsy. The framework targets to provide easy access to different entertainment mediums like, reading book, listening to music, watching videos, and accessing social network sites like Facebook and Gmail. People with CP lack motor control that causes full or partial malfunctioning of body parts responsible for generating speech and limb movements. This restricts them to use standard computer peripherals like, keyboard and mouse. The proposed framework is integrated with an easily accessible auto scanning mechanisms that helps people with motor disorders to access computer applications. We have evaluated the system with a set of six CP patients. Our initial evaluation results revealed that the proposed system is increasingly becoming popular among the target population.