Social network framework for deaf and blind people based on cloud computing
Mahmoud El-Gayyar, Hany F. ElYamany, Tarek A-Z K Gaber, Aboul Ella Hassanien · 2013
Abstract—Most of the governments and civil society organiza-tions work hardly to promote the disabled people especially blind and deaf persons to join the normal community and prac-tice the regular daily life activities. Indeed, Information Tech-nology with its modern methodologies such as mobile and Cloud computing has an impressive role in enhancing the inter-communication among the people with different disabilities and normal pupils from one side and among the disabled people themselves who have the same or different impairments. How-ever, a few numbers of suggested systems are quite limited for the Arabic Region. Additionally, according to our knowledge, there is no proposed system for connecting the blind and deaf people within direct Arabic language-based conversations. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework constructed upon three main modern technologies: mobile devices, Cloud resources and social networks to provide a seamless communi-cation between the blind and deaf people especially for those living in the Arabic countries. Moreover, it is designed to facili-tate the communication with normal people through various di-rections by using recent methodologies such as time-of-flight camera and social networks. The main modules and compo-nents of the suggested framework and its possible scenarios are fully analyzed and described.