MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

Sarah

One-line solution summary.

Building a personal computer that can be used with voice and motion and has no physical keyboard.

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

Sarah is a computer without a physical keyboard that can be used with voice and motion. Sarah reduces repetitive actions during computer use, allows physical mobility during computer work, provides a considerable saving of time and energy compared to our current computers. It mainly uses speech recognition technology and Digital image processing.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

No easy way to use a computer without physical contact, lots of repetitive physical actions when using a computer, the lack of physical mobility when using a computer is very problematic for all computer users. The persistence of these problems generates in the field of health for most computer users disorders such as visual fatigue, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the forearms, wrist, index or thumb, psychosocial risks and stress. In productivity, there is a lot of waste of energy and time, an absence of physical mobility.Also allow people with disabilities or who no longer have the use of the hand to use a computer

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The targets are anyone using computers such as students, programmers, pupils, teachers, secretaries, companies that use more computers (Amazon, Facebook, Tesla...),people with disabilities or who no longer have the use of the hand to use a computer. The computer allows you to perform tasks naturally with your voice, reduces repetitive actions, saves time and energy, physical mobility and reduces eyestrain, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the forearm, wrist, index finger or thumb, and reduces psychosocial risks and stress

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

As a student for 4 years, I observed many people with their computers and they all needed to move from their workstations while performing tasks on the computer. So that's how I designed a windows software to solve the problem. But the remark is that the problem should be solved in the hardware part of the computer.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Other: Addressing an unmet social, environmental, or economic need not covered in the four dimensions above

What is the unmet need that your solution tried to address? Why is it important?

Build a computer that can be used with voice and does not have a physical keyboard to improve the accessibility of the computer, also to allow people with disabilities or who no longer have the use of the hand to use a computer, reduce health problems such as visual fatigue, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the forearms, wrist, index finger or thumb, psychosocial risks and stress, allow physical mobility when working use from the computer.

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

I chose prototype because I have a model presented in my elevator pitch which is a windows software corresponding to the concept of a computer usable with voice.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Cotonou, Bénin

Team Lead:

de SOUZA Renaud