Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Feelif: Multimedia device for blind and visually impaired people


Description

Feelif d.o.o. is a high-tech company with focus on information systems for the blind and visually impaired. Our goal is to empower the blind and visually impaired so that they can easily access information in digital form.

Feelif d.o.o. has roots in well-established Slovenian company 4WEB d.o.o., which is developing web and mobile applications since year 2000. Our patented technology used by Feelif is a product of our own research and innovation. We have invented technology that enables blind to feel shapes on a touch screen. Now we are using that technology to create multisensory digital games and educational content for the blind and visually impaired.

As the worldwide first provider of multisensory digital games and educational content for the blind and visually impaired we help to enrich their lives all over the world.

With our disruptive technology we are boldly discovering unknown fields, each day coming up with new solutions for the blind and visually impaired.

In order to make use of that technology we have created 3 different types of products:

1. Feelif Creator (Feelif Gamer, Feelif Creator, Feelif Pro): multimedia device for the blind and visually impaired;

2. Multisensory digital content: digital games and educational content;

3. Open Platform: market place for content and apps, enabling anybody to create content for the blind and visually impaired.

Inclusion is our buzz word for Feelif. Citing sighted boy Maks, who is 8 years old: “I love Feelif because I can play with it myself or with my sister Mia who is blind. We are having so much fun! There are so many different games to choose from. My favourite game is Battleships.”

Feelif received many awards for its innovative technology; the most important and latest,
Feelif is the best European Social Innovation 2017 in Europe.

Project website

https://www.feelif.com


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2019
  • AL C7. E-health
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Ongoing

Start date

November 2013

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • People with disabilities
  • Blind and visually impaired people

WSIS values promotion

Feelif devices are adapted smartphones and tablets, which give blind and visually impaired people the ability to use digital content without limitations.


Entity name

Feelif d.o.o.

Entity country—type

Slovenia Private Sector

Entity website

https://www.feelif.com