Design of an Accessible Music Control Device for Individuals with Disabilities Based on Gesture Recognition

With the consistent advancement of science and technology, the quality of life for individuals has been continuously enhanced. However, due to their physiological limitations, individuals with disabilities have faced difficulties in obtaining equal level of welfare compared with others during the technological progress. In response to the above challenges, this essay will introduce an accessible music control device, which utilizes gesture recognition technology to help individuals with disabilities to lightly control the music software. The principle of this design is to transmit different gesture information (up, down, left, right, front, back, clock-wise, counterclockwise, and fluctuating) read by the gesture recognition sensor PAJ7620U2 to the Arduino Leonardo core processor through the I2C communication serial port. The software program run by the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) software drives the OLED 0.96 display, and then the recognized gestures will be displayed on the OLED 0.96 screen, enabling the tar-get group to use music software for volume adjustment, track switching and other essential functions.