Development of Prototype Chat System Using Mobile Platform for Disable People

The changes given by the communication technologies will always have an enormous impact on every aspects of life, especially on how the people interact to each other. Presently all the people almost have no obstacles to communicate to each other. There have been many sophisticated communication tools that provide many functions and services. Even though the communication technology is becoming more incredible, there is not much of communication technology development and improvement for disabled people. The way they communicate have not changed much compared to normal people. Sign language is the most common method followed by writing. For the writing method, it is not really applicable since not all of them is able to write. Yet, for the last a few years, they frequently use Short Message Service (SMS) as another method to communicate. It is the most popular communication technology used by the disabled people. All of them use SMS to send information in a far distance, such as to family. However, the problem emerges when it comes out to short distance communication because they usually use sign language to transfer information. It is the obstacle since not all of us understand that method. Prototype of Disabled People Chatting using mobile platform is a new method which has the power using Bluetooth conncetivity during communication process. The program supports text communication in both sides. Furthermore, the program has the power in handling hosts. It means the user could chat using method, such as one-to-one (unicast). Hopefully, the success of this project would becomes the innovation and brings the revolution for all of us, especially for disabled people.