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With the explosion of AI, communications, and autonomous vehicle technologies over the last decade, American society is undergoing a radical technological shift. It is creating novel tools, products, and solutions to overcome many barriers related to aging, disability, and transportation.
There are three different market segments in the disability landscape that Daedalus Cybernetics and its subsidiary companies, ARP and MyUI, aim to serve.
Retailers are increasingly adopting self-checkout kiosks to enhance customer experience and reduce operational costs. These kiosks, found in grocery stores and big-box retailers, allow customers to independently scan, bag, and pay for their items, speeding up the checkout process and offering more control over their shopping journey.
The smart home appliance sector, an emerging market within consumer appliances, offers devices that can connect to the internet or other devices for remote control and automation. These appliances, like smart thermostats, refrigerators, and microwaves, aim to increase home convenience, efficiency, and energy conservation.
Autonomous ridesharing is set to transform personal transportation by offering on-demand rides using self-driving vehicles. These vehicles navigate autonomously using technologies like sensors, radar, and AI, eliminating the need for human drivers and promising a new era of convenience and safety in transportation. Daedalus has developed multiple B2B, B2E, and B2C strategies to enter and establish product market fit in the three markets mentioned above. Further details will be shared with investors in upcoming webinars during this fundraising campaign.
The Accessibility Research Platform (ARP) is a digital platform designed to connect people with disabilities to the broader research and development community. The ultimate goal of ARP is to enable greater accessibility to a range of everyday products and services by supporting greater involvement of the disability community in the design process.
ARP helps companies more easily connect with disabled product testers and helps persons with disabilities have their voices heard in product development. Additionally, through its web-based training platform, ARP leverages its pool of research participants to train technologists in accessibility. This ensures that companies don’t just have access to feedback from disabled users but that they know how to leverage it.
The ARP project, to date, has been funded by grants from the South Carolina Research Authority and the Clemson University Research Foundation.
The ARP platform may prove to be a game changer for accessibility, supporting greater involvement of the disability community in product design while training the next generation of accessibility-minded technologists. Daedalus has initiated conversations with several university researchers and departments about using ARP in user studies.
MyUI.ai is a cloud-based system that leverages artificial intelligence to adapt the digital interfaces of consumer appliances, kiosks, and nearly any compatible IoT device to the specific interaction needs of people with disabilities (PWD).
From a practical perspective, this means that an interface that, as a default, only supports touch or tactile interaction may now support gestures, eye gaze, affect, and/or voice commands. The user interface (UI) adaptation further extends to the visual elements of the UI and involves adaptations of interface colors, contrast, font size, spacing, button size, and layout.
MyUI enables people with disabilities to interact with customized as opposed to default and potentially inaccessible digital interfaces. MyUI is a technology designed specifically for the use of persons with disabilities, but it may also be beneficial for those seeking a greater degree of personalization.
MyUI uses the predictive power of artificial intelligence to adapt, in real-time, user interface content and supporting interaction modalities for compatible internet-connected devices.
Grants from the Clemson University Research Foundation and the South Carolina Research Authority have funded the project and product development.
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