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Curt Curt has
Cerebral Palsy. He lives
with his friend Tim, who also
has
Cerebral Palsy. Curt is
not able to use the handheld
remotes that control the TV,
cable box, VCR, and DVD player.
He also is not able to operate
some of the lamps and lights in
the house. Curt relies on
Tim for these tasks. Curt
would like to be able to control
his audio/video equipment and
lights by himself.
The Solution
 Custom
Automation Technologies, Inc.
installed a CAT-Solo system.
The system is configured to
control the TV, cable box, VCR,
DVD player, and 5 lights.
The system was provided by
Creative Housing Inc.
CAT-Solo supports a variety
of user interfaces. The
interface that works best for
Curt is one that provides 4
buttons for input and a video
menu. The video menu
consists of several pages, each
with about 10 actions to
perform. Curt uses the
first button to select the
desired page. The second
and third buttons are used to
move the cursor up and down in
order to select the desired
action on the page. The
fourth button is used to tell
CAT-Solo to perform the selected
action. A demonstration of
how this works can be seen
here.
Since Curt's arm and hand
movements can be jerky,
sometimes causing a button to be
pressed more than once, special
programming was implemented so
that multiple button presses in
quick succession are ignored.
For the first time, Curt is
able to control his A/V
equipment and lights on
his own!
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