During our session of HCI course on 24th of april we had the opportunity meet Mr. Xavier Ochoa from Ecuador. Mr. Xavier Ochoa is a professor in Ecuador who works in a research center with his team. He mainly focuses on developing new ways of human-computer interaction technologies for low budget.
He expressed that as developer it's our task to put humans in center and that we should give attention to all kinds of audiences to solve their problems using the knowledge we gathered in our life.
During his presentation he showed the students a few prototypes his team has developed that are targeted for people who can't afford to buy expensive technologies. For instance, his team has succeeded to build a prototype for movement detection. While this technology exists today, it's done using very sophisticated and expensive technologies. In his case they were able to build it by using cheap devices like web cams and gloves. It's really astonishing achieving the same for much lower budget. Providing solutions for such challenging tasks is something that we as developers should aim for in our lives.
Making technology accessible for all people is another challenge he discussed about. When developing a technology we should also keep those people that are psychically limited in mind. These new challenges bring new ways of thinking and looking at the technology. Instead of being narrow-minded we begin to have a broader vision on future technologies.
I want to thank you Mr. Xavier Ochoa for his great presentation and taking our attentions to the possibilities we
can achieve by thinking in different ways. I wish his team good luck with his research.
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