APSN - Project: Team SmartWeigh

Trainees at APSN, a social service agency providing education for persons with Mild Intellectual Disability, are trained to use the weighing scale to measure the required amount of ingredients. However, trainees might lack the quantitative reasoning to know if they should add or reduce the ingredient, affecting the quality of the final product.

Project team SmartWeigh thus designed a system which consists of a kitchen weighing visual aid which prompts the user to input the number shown on the weighing scale, and tells the user whether they need to add/remove the weighed product to achieve the target weight. This is followed up with a quiz application that aids in their understanding and prepares them for their kitchen training involving weighing skills to produce consistent baking products.

DSA - Project: Team EZ-Link Top Up

Taking public transport is a daily travelling task which we perform on a regular basis. However learners in DSA (S) find this task daunting as the self-service machines require skills to complete the top up. Team EzEDS developed an experiential solution prototype with an Arduino processor which simulates the EZ Link card top up process thereby helping to enhance the learner’s skills and independence in using our public transport.

Upon presenting the completed functional prototype to DSA, the director commented that the prototype was good and had the sufficient functions for DSA’s usage, and proceeded to give the team the greenlight with the development of the actual device with minor aesthetic tweaks. 

SADeaf - Project: Team SmartWatch

The ringing of our alarm clocks, the horns of approaching cars and the familiar chimes of our doorbells are useful inventions designed to make our lives easier. The beneficiaries of SADeaf, however, do not have access to these conveniences. This project created an application for smart watches which gives safety alerts to persons of hearing impairment showing direction and sound type when sound is detected, thus notifying users of potential hazards, providing a cheaper and more effective alternative compared to the existing solutions such as hearing aids which are often costly.

The project members then joined the Youth Action Challenge competition as Team Ambisense and even won overall second in place and the Youth Co:Lab Champion award!

DSA - Project: The Money Counting Group

Coins are widely used in our daily transactions and it is an important functional skill for independent living. As such, developing a money counting device would not only teach the learners with down syndrome in DSA (S) the values of coins and empower them to perform basic transactions, but also valuable mathematical concepts.

The Money Counting Group project team successfully created a software prototype mobile application through coding which is able to provide visual aid of denominations of coins and notes and calculate the total amount and change. The application also has audio cues to instruct, remind and warn the user on crucial things such as wrong amounts. In the long term, usage of this mobile application allows the user to build their money counting capability.

SPD – Project: Team Workpress

The Sheltered Workshop is a place for employment and vocational training for people with disabilities. The projects and small contract work that SPD secures provide a real work environment for their trainees, thus improving future employment prospects.

Project team Workpress made visits to the sheltered workshop to identify safety hazards and productivity bottlenecks, and then produce a prototype aimed at being an integrated solution for this issue, such that multiple book binding processes can be done much more efficiently and safely, and provide a better user-friendly environment for people with disabilities in the factory.