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SPQR

Through SPQR (Special QR) the Fundación Orange aims to provide an opportunity for the integration of people with disabilities in the IT society.

SPQR is being developed by BJ Adaptaciones, a company founded in 2002 which is responsible for producing and/or distributing support technology to aid the independence of people with disabilities.

The project consists of a system that uses the advantages of QR codes to facilitate access to information, interaction with the environment and thus increase person’s autonomy.

QR code is capable of storing a large amount of information. Apart from the normally associated text and web addresses, you can store media information (video, photos and pictograms...). In addition, decoding is simple, using a mobile phone or PDA with built-in camera you can capture the code and with an application installed in the device information is decrypted.

The QR code (Acronym of Quick Response) is one of what has become known as "two-dimensional barcode" standards. Created in Japan in 1994 by the Denso-Ware Company. It is a system of storing information in a pattern of modules or a two-dimensional barcode and is characterized by three squares in the corners which detect the position of the code for the decoding reader using a camera in a mobile phone.

The QR code is capable of storing a large quantity of encodedinformation, apart from the normally associated text and addresses it is also able to store multimedia information (video, photos, pictograms…). Moreover decodification is simple and can be done via a mobile phone or PDA. With the incorporated camera the code can be captured and with an installed reader application in the device the information contained is decoded.

Placing QR code tags within the user surroundings, this system can facilitate the recognition of objects, generalization and literacy education, access to information, adaptation of the work place, enhancing independence and communication, etc.

So people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or intellectual disabilities can use a mobile as a type of compass to interact with their surroundings via QR codes that allow them to decrypt actions, situations, or objects that make up their everyday reality. Additionally QR codes will also be beneficial for people with functional diversity or communication problems, speech or language limitations, apraxia or aphasia. In addition it could be very appropriate for elderly people to access information, especially for people affected by Alzheimer's.

The solution has been contemplated so that it can be adapted to any kind of functional diversity since the platform allows the storage of customised information and will be developed along the lines of a Design for All.

Likewise, the project will develop a web application to create and store QR codes, which will also include a multimedia database tailored to the needs of the users, which will be finalised after testing in associations of people with disabilities.

SPQR project technological development has the support of the Plan Avanza2.