2024 Galleries
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Galleries // 2024 Spark:Spring Student // Link
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Winner - Bronze
Competition: Spark:Spring Student
Designer: Ji Hoon Park
Design Type: Health & Medical
Company / Organization / School: Korea Design Membership +
Team Members: Ji Hoon Park, Dohui Kim & Gagyeong Min
This product is designed to bridge the communication gap between deaf parents and their hearing children. By integrating AI technology, this device can perform several crucial functions. Firstly, it restores the parent's voice, recognizing their speech and converting it into a natural-sounding voice. Equipped with a camera, the device also recognizes sign language and converts it into spoken words for the child using the restored parental voice. As the child grows and starts speaking, the device captures the child's speech and converts it into text, projecting it on a display for the parent to read. This enables real-time, bidirectional communication, fostering emotional bonding and mutual understanding. The product assists deaf parents in immediate emergency situations where communication is difficult and enhances educational outcomes by promoting the child's early language development. It also increases the independence of deaf parents. Moreover, by allowing deaf parents to actively participate in their child's life, it promotes social inclusion and psychological well-being. This product provides a sustainable solution that enhances the quality of life for families with deaf members. By addressing the unique challenges faced by deaf parents, it aims to create a more inclusive and connected world.
