IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets that are easier to use for people who have disabilities or aren't fully cultured.
As part of the project, announced Wednesday, Big Blue will collaborate with India's National Institute of Design and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
The goal is to develop a common interface for mobile devices that will make them easier to use. As digital information becomes more vital, IBM said, it believes the Internet needs to be more reachable to a wider range of people, including those who are illiterate, blind, deaf, and elderly, and those in developing countries.
"Through this collaborative research proposal, we will uncover real information convenience requirements and issues that the elderly and people in developing economies are facing today," Chieko Asakawa, an IBM Fellow and chief technology officer of IBM's accessibility research, said in a statement. "By focusing on mobile devices, which have a tremendous potential to empower them, we believe the findings will help us offer reasonable services to a large population, who are still deprived of access to key information sources."
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