Bridging Project is designed for mute or deaf people who can still generate brain signals of speaking, including the patients who have suffered a stroke. It helps to build a bridge between normal people and mute or deaf people through brain to brain communication.
Smartphone, Bluetooth, B-earphone, Brain to brain communication
B-earphone will be paired with smartphones through Bluetooth. When the user wants to talk to others, he/she needs to think about what to say and B-earphone will transform his/her brainwaves into an electric signal and send it to the smartphone. Â After the smartphone received the signal, it can decode it and speak out the words. The normal people can know what the mute people want to say.
This project can also be used among the deaf people. When normal people want to talk to the deaf people, they can speak out and the smartphone will transform the words into signals and send them to the B-earphone. B-earphone then interprets signals to make it understandable brainwaves for the users. This way the deaf people can understand what the normal people are saying.
The name of the project means the project builds a bridge between normal people and the mute or deaf people. It is also why the icon of the project is a bridge. The main colour is simple and pure blue. The UI of bridging app is clean and easy to use, just a few buttons. As stated in the opportunities for design intervention in the first poster, the device designed for the disabilities should be portable or easy to take outdoors.  At first, I try to design a pair of glasses for sending and receiving signals but that will be unnecessary for people who have good sight. Then I think about “B-earphone” which is a wearable and light-weight earphone, designed for receiving and sending brainwave signals, as well as electric signals. The “B” in “B-earphone” means the bridge between mute people and normal people, as well as the earphone being able to translate and interpret brainwaves.