The following is an introduction to this weeks DID YOU KNOW? question. The other day a new client was doing an intro and in our giggles I asked her if she could relax her eyeballs (because Im full of tact & awesomeness like that). To which she responded why cant I use my eyes to make my butt work? Ordinarily you would assume it impossible. HOWEVER ... Were learning more about Neurology and connective tissue (fascia) than ever before. And were starting to teach people new ways to move, especially when were looking at pain, neurological dysfunction (which for example could be a lower back injury). So we had this conversation and she was AWESOME about re patterning movement, neuromuscular holding patterns etc - which led me to the anatomy of the eye (for the record there are 6 extra ocular or intrinsic eye muscles), and this led me to Stephen Hawking. QUESTION: How does he talk through his computer? ANSWER: He uses his cheek... My main interface to the computer is through a program called EZ Keys, written by Words Plus Inc. This provides a software keyboard on the screen. A cursor automatically scans across this keyboard by row or by column. I can select a character by moving my cheek to stop the cursor. My cheek movement is detected by an infrared switch that is mounted on my spectacles. This switch is my only interface with the computer. EZ Keys includes a word prediction algorithm, so I usually only have to type the first couple of characters before I can select the whole word. When I have built up a sentence, I can send it to my speech synthesizer. I use a separate hardware synthesizer, made by Speech+. It is the best I have heard, although it gives me an accent that has been described variously as Scandinavian, American or Scottish. Professor Stephen Hawking I hope you learnt something new today.. I know I did. hawking.org.uk/the-computer.html
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:04:04 +0000
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