Feature Writer Alena Roberts - Learn Yoga Using Microsoft Connect My first exposure to yoga was in a college class with a very skilled instructor. During our class, there were many times that my teacher would have to reposition my body because I wasn't doing the pose correctly. Yoga can be very beneficial both physically and emotionally, but you can injure yourself if your posture is incorrect. Understanding how your body moves in space when you're blind can be very challenging, so a team of researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new program that will teach the blind how to do yoga using the Microsoft Connect.
Microsoft's Connect system is designed to get users to use their body while playing video games. The system has a camera that watches everything that you do. Since the system is able to monitor body movements, the team of designers thought that they might be able to write a code that would provide verbal feedback to the user about how their positioning their body and what changes to make. For instance, if the person needs to bend more to the side, the program will say something like, "lean towards your left". Watch this video to get a better feel for how the program works: http://www.redorbit.com/news/video/health_2/1112977763/yoga-for-the-blind-10172013/ Eyes free yoga will teach the user six different yoga poses. As the user gets better at positioning their body correctly, they can then use these six poses to do their own independent yoga practice. The team plans to release the game for free online and continue to develop more fitness games for people with disabilities. To learn more about the project, read the full article in RedOrbit: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112978706/yoga-for-the-blind-with-kinect-101813/ With regards, Jaison Bellarmine, Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
