Indian students open 'DOORS' to the web for differently-abled

Bangalore: A group of students from Bangalore's Government Sri Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Technological Institute have developed an operating system (OS) that will help the differently-abled people to use their PCs and laptops. Called the DOORS which expands to Disk Operated Office Recovery System, the OS makes use of gesture controlling system for physically challenged users, including visually impaired. 

The students, Neelakantan S, Vivekananda M, Veda Prakash and Mohammad Irshaad, have worked on the development of the OS for three years now. The OS is able to detect the slightest movements of the hands or limbs of a person with the help of an intensity sensor.

The OS includes a speech recognition tool specially meant for the visually impaired users. The OS also comes with an in-built anti-virus program called Cool Cops that automatically quarantine infected files.

The live OS does not require installing and takes about a minute to load. This makes the OS more user -friendly. The OS also supports Windows and Linux files.