Creatability's accessible and creative tools

Interactive features that respond to movements in your body gives you the feeling that you have control over your environment. They can also be used to make fairly simple tasks even easier and can be used to make certain controls more accessible. These are the exact goals of the project being run at Google called Creatability.

Creatability is a set of experiments made in collaboration with creators and allies in the accessibility community. They explore how creative tools – drawing, music, and more – can be made more accessible using web and AI technology. They’re just a start. We’re sharing open-source code and tutorials for others to make their own projects.

Creatability's site currently features 7 interactive features and 5 of which anyone on the site can play around with using their camera and mouse to control sound, drawings, or music (Creatability, n.d.).

One thing that our partners at Honda expressed to us about back row entertainment systems is that when they are mounted to the back of the front seat's headrests and the controls are attached to them, it can often be hard for the the users, particularly when they are children, to interact with those controls. With the addition of sensor oriented or motion tracking technology to detect a hand reaching for the controls of the screen, small children can easily control what is happening on the screen simply by waving their hand and hovering over the action they would like to execute.

This technology also can have many indications for all sorts of play that can happen in the back of the car. Children could be in the back seat playing around with music notes and composing melodies or it could be applied for any number of other learning skills.

References

Creatability - experiments with Google. experiments.withgoogle.com. (n.d.). https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/creatability