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L’innovazione tecnologica Open al servizio del sociale | Massimiliano Salfi | TEDxSSC


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arthur rubinstein a great pianist
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george enescu a violinist with talents
exceptional
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[Laughs]
is the wonderful voice of maria callas
three great soloists three great performances
but what if we try for one
moment to imagine to mix them
together without any criteria
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a disaster of the rest musicians
they know the concept of harmony well
every note every sound but also every break
must be harmoniously connected to
sounds at the breaks of other performers
if you want to get a great result
here is a great result not only in
music a concept to keep
account in general 20 June 2012
a date that marked a turning point
important in my life journey
that day to my little girl of only 8
years, retinitis was diagnosed
pigmentosa salt and pepper the name
would leave to evoke a picnic with
meat and sausage salt pepper
in reality we speak of a rare pathology
a genetic disease
an illness that brings those affected
at best it is one
serious loss of the visus you do in
these cases abandon themselves to despair
in despair
or try to grab the bull for
the horns
the first instinctive reaction was that of
take a sheet of paper and start
to write down some ideas
then you actually become theses of
graduate student that as I
they request
aiming to
transform this object one
smartphone
we carry it behind us almost as if it were
an appendix of our body and often
we make them do things even enough
stupid how to post a picture of the dish
that we are about to eat on social media
restore dignity I could say to this
object through the theses they had
as a goal to turn it into
an aid for people with disabilities
visual a tool that could
accompany in daily life
this is how the ice i project was born
guys were very happy excited
their theses were no longer just one
way to get to the goal a lot
dreamed of graduating but also something from
spend in the social, however, felt that
something did not fit me, I did not come back
I could not understand what it was
understood where the problem was
I actually did not have the slightest idea of
what it meant to live with retinitis
pigmentosa what it meant not
benefit from the sense of sight not
see knowing that you have to become non
seeing and above all I did not even know
what could from the point of view
technological to be useful to realize
that’s how I began then to ad
face a long enough period
living in contact with those in the
daily this condition with those who have
this disease with those who lost it
seen with those who need it to come
really developed something useful
it is this long period led to
of the considerations I summarized in
three points even if they are much more
complex probably the first i
existing aids the technological type
obviously they are based on closed systems
proprietary non-modifiable technologies
not customizable
this consideration starts from an error
background that is to consider the
blind as a universal entity
equal whatever the individual is
whatever the experience actually is
we could take ten hundred thousand not
seeing we would have ten hundred thousand
different needs
who was born blind will have needs
different from those who saw it
he has lost it over time but has it
benefited for a few years for those
years will have benefited will cause that if
they will have different individuals with
different needs as well as having lost
the view quickly and suddenly with
a trauma an accident will cause yes
have a subject with needs
different from those who have seen it lost
with a disease like these over time
over the years with a degenerative appearance
the second aspect costs the aids
technology costs are exorbitant
it does not touch while the area on the merits is
clearly this is not mine
however, intention is a paradox one
help an object that by definition
must make an action accessible
daily that is not accessible
from the point of view of costs
absurd it is as if I were putting myself in it
head of wanting to solve the problem
of hunger in the world and go around
box or in africa with the truck a
sell sandwiches for 100 euros each
concept is the same if we reason
the last consideration is more of a type
technological who produces aids for
visual impairments always of type
technological naturally thinks that the
speech synthesis is the panacea for everyone
the evils
let us notice all the technological aids
for the blind they force that poor
blind person walking around with
someone who always talks to him behind you
this you do what you go down to
right
a nightmare that has a wife maybe can
understand what it means to go behind with
this continuous voice I also see mine
wife who laughs among other things and they are
sure that I have made all enemies enemy
women present in the hall with this
affirmation
from these considerations but also from
others the main mission of
via ice many have become really
in others, but this remains the most
important to achieve
the open alternative to the market of
aids for people with visual impairments
open alternative which means open
especially in a technological context
let’s take a moment to test how many
you raise your hand those of you have one
android smartphone
ok as he would say , hands down
now
raise your hand who has one instead
device with ios a smartphone with
ios
ok with you I do not speak so I would invite you
voices outside the hall
joking aside because I do not speak with you
because in josè a closed system while
android is an open system that
means means that I’m an expert in
technology can enter it
I can understand how it’s done I can study
I can modify it and improve it
good at the point of achieving something
such
and all this without costs without paying
royalty free licenses without having to give
account and reason almost to none
I see someone still not convinced I’m looking for
to lower the level even further
of the explanation as if I were saying from
today on you can enter any
party says
eat a dump go away without it
pay without this constituting either
a crime or something
ethically incorrect I am sure that
this image makes you throat
here this is what happens to us
technology experts make us throat the
made to get inside is to be able to
some way to understand and improve
contribute the first solution
technology born from this experience and
the wearable eyes to platform
wear an infrastructure like hardware
open source software based on glasses
and belt behind me in the picture you see
a bit the history of glasses at
left the first model a lot
rudimentary in the center what it was
the last one until recently is now
become the penultimate because we have
discovered that the blind as well plans
toso wants to know if they are beautiful that they are
elegant if we make them of many colors and
we can not tell them what they are
beautiful are blind but not stupid
it would be enough to touch them to understand it then
we are focusing on aesthetics too
something we had not thought about
dedicating only the functionality to it
this hardware on board exist
sensors the glasses and are equipped with
a hi- fi hi -resolution field
there are conductive earphones
bone to benefit from the synthesis
voice with an on demand approach when
he asks the blind person not imposed not
invasive the temples have the
possibility to vibrate separately
thus being able to benefit from a system
of alternative notifications as well as
I do with your smartphone when detachment
the ringtone because I do not want to be
disturbed I do not want to disturb me
Interested in receiving some notification
some news on the belt instead of the
buckle is a particular room room
they would call it the English ie one
sensor that can observe the
visual scene and calculate exactly the
distance of each object of each point
which forms the object itself with respect to
sensor then compared to the wearer
on this hardware it is possible
install bricks as if it were
a lego what a brick is an aid
is a function a module that allows you to
to make something that is useful
a blind person
we have developed several i
bricks we have one that frames the
text and the law we have another that
they say subjects that recognize color
of objects
we have medical devices that yes
connect as a sphygmomanometer or a
glucometer we have achieved a
brick very important for the
mobility something that allows
identify a path free from
obstacles before the blind and have it
reported only with the vibration
of the arms not someone who is
He speaks constantly behind us as we said
poc’anzi is the obstacle in addition to understanding
the traditional ones you see in this one
sort of test one can also mean one
hole a man height beam something that
it’s complicated
maybe going around with the stick
white to signal I touch on the ground and
then they beat our foreheads because they do not
I think of doing so also for not giving
stick shots to be missing but the
important news that this hardware is
also programmable, that is anyone who has
the skills to do it can develop
new bricks can develop something
we have not even thought about one
function that can be useful to a non
visually impaired if expert
of technology a person dear to him if
he wishes he can release the brick
through us through a store
dedicated that will be born in favor of others
that this competence does not have it but
that function that can in some
so you need to use this
it is another very important concept but
it is exported if you think about it too
from the smartphone
I buy a smartphone that has so many
nfc chip accelerometer sensors fine
words that often do not even know what
mean then but I’m dedicated to me
unloading knapp my mobile phone for
Magic becomes a compass to drain
another and becomes a card reader
credit and pos functions forces to
which not even those who released
that hardware had thought it could
be applied to the smartphone
same then of ice as said produces
open technology at the service is called
visual disability in a non-profit way
innovative technology at the service of
social if you think about it is not much
different from a vocation start up
vocal the social vocation sorry one
startup, however, can sell what
produces can base profits on this
technology
what we and us have in common
this is the search for money funds
blessed money damn money everyone
choose the li that prefers who is
trying to start and start one
startup is fine as it is complex
find funds while selling something
what a Russian man does not do long
in our case we do not want to own
do beyond that it is not possible to do and the
Fundraising goes through that
I know the compilation of formats such as the
business canvas a prospectus on which
demonstrate a potential investor that
if he gives you your money he will get it
important profits compared to what I can
make a concurrent product admitted that
smog exists
another indicator that tells me to
country level system that investment
how much will all return
through students and tropic or pc
you simply know what an elevator is
pitch I explain it in a simple way
Imagine you are in America of
enter the base of a sky tab
to take the elevator together with a
investor you have a chance hit
luck with the c I would say to
meet him to get in and out of it
having it there with you can not escape
until at least the ascension will not take
on the floor is in this short amount of
time
you have to convince him that give you his
money for your idea will be the thing
better than he could have done in his
life that could guarantee it useful
important now I do not know how many of you
they’ve never been in America with an elevator
from the ground floor
the eightieth floor takes 20 seconds
to arrive but our parts would be
more facilitated because if you take one
elevator on the ground floor you have the
lucky to meet a girl a
boy you like and go alone to the
fifth floor you will arrive on already married
beyond the simple lines is
complex find funds for those too
sells something
so what have we thought about doing in
reality the open technologies what the
experts in economics who would love
business core is not necessarily not
indeed it must never be the object
which produces the same technology as the
glasses in our case but they are i
ancillary services
the advice the training the
customization
in our case, for example, development
of the bricks then we thought of
a part there are the blind ones who
will have to benefit in a free way in
non-profit mode of glasses the first
soloist to go back to the beginning
rubinstein then we are forming some
people of technology experts
so that they become good at developing
new bricks the second soloist the
our initial violinist but to these
people also promise we can
earn from this activity for
to stimulate them in some way is how it enters
in game the third solo callas of the
our example an institution an association
someone who has a budget to use
to be able to develop a new brick
for the people dear to him for his relatives
associated that manages and this will do yes
that of ice t for a negotiation between the
developer is the entity the developer the
we would call for the final customer
blind person can benefit from the
produced this negotiation will have to do
correspond to a percentage to
street crates so we can
to support the model from the point of view
cheap
we can develop new technology
we can build or instances of glasses
release them and feed ingot
feed this circle
here are these three soloists now
they will play a unique harmony
symphony and this symphony has a name yes
call our center bryce land
no profit is based in the municipality of milo una
very large structure extends over
a large park of 48 thousand square meters
four buildings 1,600 square meters of
cover a wonderful place that le
daughters of charity have put us to
available for free
in love with the activities we do
all we like
yes, because inside there
we take care of the people they have
a real problem
the blind person who knows what they will become
a blind person and in doing so we develop so much
technology not just the one I have
told today that is one of many
for example, just to name a few
I do not want to make the whole redais list
a system that allows to carry out the
red reflex test more than a baby
using only an android smartphone
we are experimenting with it now I still have
leonardo an aid that allows to
direct an orchestra made only by
people with visual impairment must
I said to a helmet with whom we are
studying the electrical activity of the
visual cortex or even poses from a 2.0
a system that allows you to drive a
invisible swimmer in the water and many
many other clinical social activities
medical and biomedical research
bioinformatics of iceland is a place
where so many people, many professionals
many volunteers, many students or former
students people with more skills
disparate we are united by one big one
conviction and group work is
the harmony that makes the difference
and all this is ice
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