Marc A Lesser
Roy Vanegas

Adaptive Videography

Allow a wheelchair-bound patient with limited motor skills to capture video via a modified, touch sensor remote control.

http://roy.vanegas.org/itp/assistive_tech/

This project was developed for wheelchair-bound patients who have full cognitive abilities and want to use a video camera for creative and personal purposes. Using a modified microphone tripod stand as its mount, the camera is controlled via a remodeled remote control that senses touch to trigger events such as "record on/off" and "zoom."

The ideal audience for this project is either a patient bound to a wheelchair who has full cognitive abilities and an interest in making movies, or someone who wants to discover videography.

A patient is going to the park with his family and wants to shoot the event. At the park, his therapist, friend, or family member places the mount on his chair, installs the camera on the mount, and places the enhanced remote cotrol in his hand. He\'s now able to control \"zoom in\", \"zoom out\", \"record start\", \"record stop\", and \"photo\" capture.

This project is made of a microphone boom stand, a heavy-duty clamp for a drum kit, a gooseneck, a coupler for the camera-to-boom conversion, a remote control, an arduino, and QProx touch sensors.

In the end, we learned how exorbitant assistive technology can be, which led our keeping costs on this project as low as possible.

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