Farfalla project

This is a scheme illustrating the future modular and multi-layer structure of Farfalla as I imagine it.

Go on readin “The software structure”

At the beginning of every research project there should be a deep analysis. It includes listing down all the resources available, gathering information about the problem which has to be studied and possibly solved, defining the strategies to be followed in every future step.

The main resources for this project are:

1. the precedent research experience with a disabled person, who has already contributed to the project in its earlier phase;
2. some experience in web application development, with a special interest in accessibility and usability.

The main objective is to create a versatile instrument, so the “problem” will be seized in smaller parts. This will help to maintain it as flexible as possible. It would be useful to build a sort of abstraction layer between the hardware and the common software, for example between the keyboard and the web browser. This layer could act as an interpreter, translating inputs received from almost every source, which could be hardware or software as well. Some modular software aids could then be written, to emulate already-existing aids or to make new ones available.

Now the most important thing to do is to gather information from companies, research centers, associations and firms which already have experience in this topic.

Every point of this post will be discussed more in depth in the following posts.