User blog
Feedback to helpers
chris147 — Feb 8, 2010Hi all!
Today I would like to emphasise the importance of giving feedback to our helpers about how we feel when using our tobiis. I know that the track status monitor helps a lot but I still say, that telling something face to face is the best way to express the way we feel.
I personally have found that sometimes my eyes are more tired than usual, therefore I struggle to hit the right cells on my P10 easily.
This is an example of me telling Feri, that right now there is nothing wrong with my eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHYXcN3xVw
I recommend to all users and helpers to think about creating grid sets regarding what the user thinks the problem might be when they have difficulties controlling their tobiis. You could say things like, your eyes are tired, you can not concentrate well enough, you have an itch, you need the tobii higher / lower, you want to dim the screen or everything is ok, just have to relax, etc… Obviously, these are only examples, not ideas written in stone. Feel free to personalize them.
Chris
New mount
chris147 — Feb 5, 2010For those who aren’t aware, I got a new powerchair at the beginning of December. The chair is brilliant, a lot more comfortable and faster than my previous chair but being a new chair it has a different frame which is wider to the one I used to use.
I use a Daessy mount to mount my P10 on my chair. This contains two main parts, a side folding pole and an in-line socket. The socket has to be fitted permanently onto my chair, this proved to be a bit of a challange. When the socket was put on the frame of my chair, it made my chair too wide to get through doorways. Therefore, I needed a piece of metal attached to the base frame of my chair to accomodate the socket. Luckily, with the help of my family, friends and two brilliant engineers a brand new part went on my chair – see photos -. I must say everyone did a great job! Thank you so much!
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/chris147/TobiiMountFinalySorted03022010#
My P10 was set up in no time, in the best ever position; these were my first words with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuO1fNAXKYA
I cannot wait to receive my C12 now! ;)
p10 email contacts
kip — Jan 28, 2010i lost all of my contacts in my email, i had almost sixty contacts, most with photo’s. I’m using sono key, I’m savvy with my tobii, I didn’t download anything,or delete anything. Can I find them, can they be saved?
Please help,
Thank you,
KipFirst impressions with the C12 and CEye
chris147 — Oct 13, 2009I am lucky, aren`t I? I had the new C12 with the CEye here with me for almost two whole days! I could say, that I was the guinea pig, testing the unit, giving feedback to tobii about the product; both hardware and software. Let me just tell you what it felt like to be a guinea pig for tobii. :)
You can imagine all the excitement building up as I waited for Lisa and Angela to arrive with the C12. Well before they were due to arrive, I was already looking through the window, checking if a car pulled up onto our drive. And when at last they arrived I was over the moon!
Everything happened so quickly. We introduced ourselves to eachother. Not because we all not have known eachother for a while via emails. :) Chatted for a while, then it was my time showing them the way my P10 is set up and all the softwares and grid sets I use. The girls were amazed, that I use all sorts of programmes for different things. Because I started off with the Grid, I still use this software to communicate, though I tend to shift to use the Communicator a lot more often now to talk to people. I still prefer the MyTobii software for chatting, emailing and surfing the internet. I don`t know about other users, but I find it natural to make use of every little possibility on the P10. And if this means, that I have to use a different software, then let it be. :)
After this, it was the girls time. They got the C12 out, set it up on my pool table – yes, I do have one -, and demonstrated what is different on it. I fell in love with the C12 for the very first time. It`s neat, perfect in size, much faster than the P10, and the level of usability is just amazing. The mouse control is fabolous, the magnifier is so much easier to control, the position of the off-screen button can be changed even by me, more accurate, etc. It is just a lot more sophisticated.
Guys, our dreams are becoming reality! Now, with the C12, we can access all of the settings on our own. How does it sound? A bit scary? No! Give us full control! :) As opposed to the software on the P10, everything is accessible through the Communicator. Calibration is easy, to change user profiles takes no time at all, click types are now available for us. Brilliant!
I also tried the Sono Keys grid set and I liked it so much, that I now have it running on my P10. To combine phrases is no trouble either. I am already building my phrase collection up for the time I am going to have a C12. ;)
I worked till late as the device had to go back the following day. Loved every moment of spending time with the C12 and I would like to thank tobii for the opportunity of letting me try their new product.
All in all, how do you think I felt being a guinea pig tester of the C12? It was FANTASTIC :D:D:D
Please check out my gallery here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/chris147/TobiiC120708102009#
And my video here:
Easy games
Jikke — May 6, 2009Hi everybody,
I was surfing on the web, looking for some games voor iso. Did not find something suitable for him, but maybe for others?
On the website of oneswitch.org (http://www.oneswitch.org.uk/4/games/0index.htm) I found some links to online games for switch users. Not everything of it is usefull for Tobii users, but some things are.
Especially the website of Papunet has some nice drawing games, easy sudoku’s, puzzles, etc.
Maybe it can be of any use for the younger children under us.
JikkeLego Train
peterp — Feb 11, 2009Hi,
after lots of tries the Lego Cargo Train Project was bit of success.
It took some research because Lego is using a modern infra red protocol, so it was not straight-forward to read/learn the infrared into the Mytobii like the remote control of tv. The latest version of Viking software is required too. The infrared transmitter we have is a separate component from GEWA.
Now, Gerben can start the train from zero to full speed with three ‘buttons’. Reverse is only one button, and of course there is a ‘STOP’ button.
Lego has a horn also on the remote control: I just downloaded some train sound from the internet and put that one behind the ‘Horn’ button.
This implementation is less sophisticated than the original Lego control. In the original control speeding up from one to seven is done by pressing the ‘forward’ button again and again. Slowing down can be done in steps too, pressing the ‘backward’ button. Pressing ‘backward’ when the train stands still makes the train moving backward, step by step, also to max 7 speeds.
The Mytobii version just starts the train and speeds up to 3, the ‘faster’ button speeds up to 5, and ‘Very Fast’ moves up to 7. Stop just stops the train in whatever speed it is. ‘Backward’ speeds backward till speed 3, no more. For Gerben, this works fine!
Lego has possiblity to select 3 separate ‘channels’: this version uses channel 1.
For those interested, sent me an email and I will sent the ‘page’ to you.
Peter
Wasting time online
joschi — Feb 8, 2009Hi,
Joschi and I are going to make some more games and toys that myTobii users can use online to entertain themselves and waste time. :-)
Like this:
Let us know if you have ideas,
Geoffrey and Joschi
Voice activated switch for myTobii ?
joschi — Feb 8, 2009We’re looking for a switch my son can use to trigger a ‘click’ instead of holding his gaze for two seconds. He can make a reliable clucking sound with his tongue, so I thought a sound activated switch would work well.
Does anyone know of an external hardware sound activated switch and how it would hook up to myTobii?
Or a software based switch (and we’d plug a mic into the myTobii)?
Thanks,
Geoffrey and Joschi
w/c mounts for the P10
jamie michalski — Jan 10, 2009Can anyone recommend a wheelchair mount for the P10- that can swing/move from the front of the chair,yet the P10 can remain on the mount. We are tring to avoid the need to take off the device or mount each time our daughter moves in/out of her wheelchair. TO lessen her reliance on someone else putting her device on and off her chair. Any thoughts are appreciated.