A New Reading Interface Design for Senior Citizens

While reading newspaper or magazine, most senior citizens experience difficulty in focusing on the small size letters or articles. The main objective of this paper proposed a friendly Human Computer Interface to help senior citizens overcoming the problem caused by the deterioration of eyesight. An Image Super-resolution technology is adopted to enlarge each single letter on the newspaper or magazine which images are captured by a small camera. Then, an innovated algorithm in typesetting will rearrange the layout results of the enlargement of letter size, a handheld projector will project an image of same information with complete new typesetting. The Gesture Recognition Technology is implemented to allow user to easily move the document in different direction.