Name: DIVA: Making the Google Assistant more accessible
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T17:31:11.000Z
Duration: 2 min 57 s
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And I think is the brother that completes our family.

Giovanni was born with congenital cataracts

he had another syndrome called West syndrome.

Now he is not able to speak, and he is legally blind.

but it's not the thing that defines Giovanni.

man singing: Yippie ya ya yoopie yoopie ya.

Caggioni: Music is really important for our family.

We use music to spend time together with Giovanni.

Sometimes he moves on the swing following the music.

Giovanni was not able to start the music he liked

on the devices his friends and our family are using.

I shared this idea with my colleagues at Google.

The idea of Diva is to increase autonomy of people with disabilities

to interact with Google Assistant in a nonverbal way.

One of my colleagues said, "Maybe we can use a physical object."

Giovanni really relies on the sense of touch.

When you have that physical object that he's able to feel,

because Giovanni is good at pressing buttons.

So you can connect the button and send the input from the button

female electronic voice: The button is set to play music

Caggioni: It was really impressive the first time he pressed the button

Caggioni: Now Giovanni is able to express himself

It may help us just to focus on what we are.