Design and technical assistance at TOM SP 2014
TOM is a design hackathon created in Israel with the main objective of designing, developing, prototyping products for people with disabilities in a 48 hours challenge.
TOM SP is the first event abroad in Brazil supported by State Government of São Paulo. During 28-30 of November, six times with different challenges created or optimized 14 projects.
I was part of team 4 in which we designed and developed a toy for visual disabled kids.
The project consisted of a chess board decorated with TOMSP´s geometric figures (Circle, square, triangle) in which each figure has a specific sound and texture.
This toy was developed to:
-visual disabled kids - the geometric figures with textures are displayed as cards in which the children has to find the correspondent shape at the board.
A second exercise is that each figure has a specific sound, the computer would play a sequence of sounds, that the children have to repeat by touching at the right figures.
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