Social Good Award
Juan Pablo Forero Cortés MussBits
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Tauira / Student
Juan Pablo Forero Cortés -
Te Kapa Tauira / Student Team
Chua Ying Tong Yvonne -
Kaitautoko / Contributors
Benjamin Petry, Chamod Weerasinghe -
Kaiako / Lecturer
Suranga Nanayakkara
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School
The University of Auckland
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Judge's comments:
As a design community, we applaud inclusive design that allows people to enjoy functional levels of participation they couldn't achieve before. This idea takes participation to a new level, beyond what hearing impaired people may expect or even think they are entitled to; to a level that they may not realise they were missing. The current design iteration relies on fairly expensive tech - which could undermine the accessibility - however technology tends to democratise over time. A great idea.