Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU) Transfer Office, which has designed the Project that detects and defines each hand signs for speech disabled people, , hosted Turkey's first visually impaired deputy Lokman Ayva.
Consultant of the project, Vice Rector of İGÜ Dr. Ali Okatan, came together to get information about the projects of the university with Lokman Ayva, who stated that he followed the press reports of the robot arm project for disabled people and expressed his excitement about the project.
"IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN TURKEY "
Lokman Ayva has pointed that many improvements is happening in turkey for disabled people, , There have been great developments in many areas from education, employment, rehabilitation, law, human rights and daily life. Tens of thousands of disabled people were hired, This is a very important improvement. There are also important developments in private sector employment. For example in education field, there was an invrease of 44 percent the number of students who were 150 thousand in 2009 increased to 370 thousand after 3 years. If you take a look at the successful students in university exams you will see 8 to 10 disabled students among the top 200 students. How Turkey will contribute the sense of technology, education, scientific studies in the field of disability?, how it will contribute the development of the World?, What kind of role will people with disabilities take here?, This is the purpose of our being here today”, he said.
“WE MAKE COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITIES”
BeyazAy Association is concered the largest organization of disabled people in Turkey said Lokman Ayva and continued, The Association has 82 branches, which 9 of them are abroad. We work with international organizations. The main purpose of the association is to improve the conditions of the disabled people. We know the problems in the World and we want to get a solution of these problems with our ideas. We cooperate and develop projects with our esteemed universities.I hope we will reach a conclusion with Istanbul Gelişim University. The problems of people with disabilities could not be solved in the last 300 years. So we need to try new things”.
“THE UNIVERSITIES MUST DEAL WITH PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS DIRECTLY”
When i saw the news of the robot arm Project which designed by Istanbul Gelişim University Technology Transfer Office's i was so glad, The initiative of the university in such projects is a great thing. Now our universities have to deal directly with people's problems. I would like to thank rector.Prof.Dr Burhan Aykaç, Head of the Board of Trustees Abdulkadir Gayretli and Vice-Chancellor and consultant of the project. Dr. Ali Okatan for providing such an atmosphere. I thank the students for being a part of this. In order for our future to be bright, students need to shoulder the future. I also thank the students for being a part of this. We need students support for our future to be bright.
As a university we are very happy that our works have created an impression said the Vice Rector Prof.Dr. Ali Okatan said expressing their satisfaction from Ali Okatan. I think that scientists Work is meaningless if they couldn’t solve people's troubles. The aims of the universities should be to solve the problems of the people. We received the advice of Lokman hoping that we will do a good work together with the association.
“WHAT IS THE IGU'S PROJECT?”
The robot arm designed by İstanbul Gelişim University to facilitate the life of disabled people perceives the sign language. With the artificial intelligence and image processing techniques, hand identification and finger counting are performed on the image taken from the camera. The actions defined for each sign are sent to the robot arm. The robot arm performs operations using the electromagnet located on it in accordance with the incoming information. The project aims to facilitate the daily life of individuals with disabilities.
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