| Show - vot "6 - I - Zbe5attgatitiStibunt r I 1117i 1111-- ::&lo Science & Technology Desk 1 ril:L1 ddr D16 SUNDAY June 16 1991 237-204- 5 Personalized Computer Programs US U 'Scrucezina' TV for More Help Disabled Children Function nee I Kathcrine of viewers can afford to get on the Ka-po- s plained Richard Maris head of the USU department of Electrical LOGAN — It is every couch poEngineering where the research tato's fantasy — hundreds more has been takirg place since 1987 television channels and a way to By dividing each image into 4watch any movie with the push of by-4 inch blocks and sending one a button piece of data to represent each Utah State University re- section researchers have been searchers could make it happen able to reduce by almost e once they the amount of information a process called "Image Compression" that is sent As it stands now transmitting "Within the next few years it will be possible to have three to programs commercials and movies takes a large portion of the four times as many television finite space available over air channels" said USU researcher waves and cable lines But USU engineer Paul Israelsen The proresearchers are trying to lessen or cess also could eliminate trips to "compress" the amount of data the local video store One day viewers may be able to that has to be sent thus making room for even more channels and push a button on their television set and specific movie would be lessening the cost For example to send a single sent to their home Viewers would be charged for the service image on a black and white television requires about 246000 bits on monthly bills he said of computer data With 30 images Image compression not only per secohd that means billions of opens up more space for television programs but reduces trans pieces of data must be transmitted just so viewers can watch a mission costs "Right now only r episode of "The Cosby the big companies can afford to Show" or the last game of the be in the business" Mr Israelsen World Series explained "But if the cost is cut For a color television set it smaller companies with programs takes three times the amount ex that appeal only to a small niche BY air" THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE By Terry Spencer ! LOS ANGELES i -- TIMES DANA POINT Calif — For the first nine years of his life Brent Weir has been trapped by his own body Deprived of sufficient oxygen at birth which severely damaged the parts of his brain controlling his limbs and speech Brent has spent most of his life in a wheelchair his only communication with the out- side world being smiles and screams and cries But because of the electronic and computer wizardry of RJ Cooper an inventor and computer programmer who volunteers his time at RH Dana Exceptional Needs Facility Brent and others like him at the school art now enjoying a degree of independent movement and communication Cooper who uses the school as a LA for inventions that he can market elsewhere has developed computer programs electronic communication devices and even an electric car that severely disabled children can operate "This is the best of both worlds for the school and myself" said Dana Point Cooper a resident and former University of Utah student "The school and the children get a lot of programs and equipment that they couldn't otherwise afford and I get to get ideas and see bow they work" Terri Mullen principal of the Capistrano Unified School District facility for physically and mentally disabled children under 12 said that Cooper's work had been a godsend for her school "KJ has provided for children who cannot communicate or learn normally ways that they can communicate or learn" Mullen said "RJ makes our program accessible t9 kids who are usually difficult to reVIL" Cooper had a cheery and breezy Manner as he walked through the toady one recent morning tousling the hair of almost every child he passed A volunteer at the school ante 1986 he has free access to the ' - ''''' a( v '"'41----- ' S-- -- 4 Ptec t 117 0i41 T I 1? ' ) 4') - Al 1 ' I I) '7 I — r i 'ti ki poi ' 1 ' 7 t‘ ft-i- 1 ‘ 1 tx g 4 to- rt!'i t' rl Scientists Develop Magnetic Plastic - 7 rrtin s 41 programs for disabled children most inspired by children at RH Dana that take most of Cooper's time : "The problem with most of the computer programs commercially available even those designed for special education is that there might not be one out there that is suitable for a particular child" Mullen said "The program might eXpect the child to answer too quickly or the scenes might flash across the screen too fast and the child isn't quick enough to re- spond" Cooper takes the child aside and tries to find out what his or her limitations are as well as the child's strengths "I'll write a program bring it to school try it on the child rush home to my computer make some revisions bring it back rush home again and keep repeating that until we've got it right working closely with the school psychologist to see What is going on inside as well as outside the child" Cooper said : One challenge he said was find fs i 1 ist i id :: 4nrilliafiCkalMeraillitillitIW Les Angeles Times Pushing buttons with his head Brent Weir can control speed of his Cooper Car an adaptation of an electronic dune buggy ing a program that would stimulate a who was born missing part of his brain While almost normal physically the boy has the intelligence of a toddler "He really doesn't do much of anything" Mullen said "He gets fed he walks a little he 'ides his bike a little We needed to find something he would understand" So Cooper began working with the boy "I noticed he has full use of his hands and that if I put a big red button in front of him he would operate it" Cooper said "Then I noticed he likes sounds and big bold graphics So after six months I e came up with a probuild-a-scen- gram he can operate" When Cooper entered the boy's class the blondish lad was lying on his back on the floor slowly shaking a maraca But when Ile saw Cooper activate the computer he quickly crawled over to Cooper and stood up in front of the video screen When a scene depicting a blue green and red kitchen appeared he started slapping a large red button with his right hand With each slap a new item would appear in the kitchen — a toaster a piece of bread a monster made of purple dark-eye- d big red button something new will happen and that he is controlling it" Cooper said "Now this might not seem like much to the lay person but for the boy this is one of the first times he is interacting with his environment and he knows why things are happening Now we just have to figure out what the next step is" Cooper began designing devices for handicapped children almost by accident A computer nut who was originally an electrical engineering major at the University of Utah he left that field of study after three years Changing his major to developmental psychology Cooper was attending a 1983 seminar at the university's medical center when he was asked if it would be possible to devise a computer program to aid a g classmate paralyzed in a accident v in I Effective Speaking - Human Relations - Self Confidence Memory Training - Selling Your Ideas - Reduce Worry and Tension CLASSES NOW FORMING "Dale Carnegie Course Dale Carnegie Sales Course and 1 1 For thiorrnabori Dale Carnegie Mangement Seminar e Recognized for College Transfer Credit by the American Council on Education" cat 363-529- 4 jelly "He knows that if he presses his 1 DALE CARNEGIE PRESENTED fork Mirehes serves he FASTEST orsogyasy in 910 MONTHLY INTEREST INCOME FNMA TR CL C Collateralized Mortgage Obligation REMIC 'Atitoof OUR SPONSORS APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS 1PI'SI NANCYLISA 322-762- 3 If You're In The -- : !?: :110 e kelt 'or—- - irIM -- - - ' rZ umumb breakfast favorites served fresh Come to Wendy's for hot and fast! 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