AUS students develop app to help paralysed patients communicate

Students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) College of Engineering have developed a mobile solution that can help paralysed patients communicate using a mobile app and a brain/computer interface.

This project recently won first place at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 UAE, and the team will now participate in the Pan Arab Semi-finals to be held in Qatar later this month. The AUS team beat 16 other projects from seven universities in the UAE

The AUS student team — Nada Ali Obaid, Aya Bilal Ali, Rana Omar Mahmoud and Mohammad Al Nabtiti — developed a smartphone app called iConnect that can determine the patients’ thoughts and feelings by reading brain signals.

The student researchers developed a set of commands that would allow patients to convey their needs such as hunger, thirst or whether they are in pain.

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AUS students develop app to help paralysed patients communicate