Sagun D.

Sambad , Access to Computers for non-literate people

Illiteracy still exists in every part of the world no matter where. Reading disabilities also resides in this developed world  in the form of functional illiteracy . There are still some people who can read the text written in the subways, notice boards, television scrolls, magazine, newspaper.. but cannot comprehend the message.  For the people who can comprehend the messages, the world seems full of information, but for those who cannot its a jungle of strange words, which can be read but cannot be understood.  Sambad is the research project initiated by Prof. Pat Hall, in Madan Puraskaar Pustakalaya. It aims to find the right way of Human Computer Interaction  for people to gather information from the computers around them. Computing has evolved to ubiquitous artifact with advent of technology; computers are every where. Today smart televisions are augmented with computers, your cell phone is a computer, even refrigerators, ovens and laundry machines are computers.  No matter how much we try, there will always some percentage of the population who will have reading disabilities. However, we cannot ignore them because they are the part of the society. Sambad bears a very high potential for tomorrow and equally, it bears responsibility for a fairer society in future.