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Beginner Awards: Disruptive technology
Augmenta
Solution details
Augmenta is an innovative solution that uses AI, virtual reality, and smart glasses to make education more accessible and inclusive by providing real-time transcription, visual aids, translations, and personalized learning summaries for all students.
Full project description and 2min video HERE:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ojZrxNuhMaxY9IVuT6fJr1r_4hgfUi6z
Tweet / Slogan
Making education inclusive and accessible through innovative technology, Augmenta empowers students to overcome challenges and unlock their full potential.
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Resources
Augmenta is an AR smart glasses device with AI-powered tools to make education easier, more fun and inclusive. You can find our promotional video and product presentation here below:
Link to our promotional video: https://youtu.be/Lq0rdN7t49M
Context
Millions of students worldwide face barriers to effective learning, with children living with disabilities such as hearing impairments, attention difficulties, and learning disorders. Many others encounter language barriers, making it difficult to engage in fast-paced, complex educational settings. These challenges prevent students from fully participating in lessons, leaving them at a disadvantage and widening the gap in accessibility and inclusivity.
Traditional education systems often lack the tools to meet these diverse needs, limiting opportunities for both students and educators. Augmenta addresses these issues by using AI and AR technology to create a focused, inclusive, and adaptive learning experience. Augmenta enables students to overcome barriers, ensuring every learner can engage fully and thrive in their education. This solution promotes equity, making education accessible for all, while empowering both students and teachers to achieve their potential.
Who Benefits?
Our target groups include students who face challenges in traditional classrooms due to distractions, language barriers, or learning disabilities, as well as educators and schools seeking innovative and inclusive teaching solutions. Augmenta directly benefits students by providing real-time transcription, translation, and visual aids, making learning more accessible and personalized. For educators, it fosters better engagement and ensures inclusivity, empowering them to connect with all students effectively. By addressing these specific needs, Augmenta helps create equitable learning environments. We ensure the solution’s usability and adaptability through feedback-driven development, pilot programs, workshops where we teach them how to use it, and seamless integration into diverse educational settings.
Impact
By breaking down educational barriers, Augmenta transforms learning environments for millions of students, enabling them to engage more effectively, comprehend lessons deeply, and retain knowledge better. This results in improved academic performance, increased independence, higher confidence, and greater inclusivity, creating long lasting impacts for students, educators, and society. We measure this impact through key metrics such as student engagement levels, academic improvement, teacher feedback, and accessibility adoption rates. Pilot programs and continuous feedback loops will ensure that the solution evolves to meet real-world needs and delivers measurable success in diverse educational settings.
Team work
Our team combines expertise in AI, software engineering, business strategy, and digital communications to implement and scale Augmenta. Alba López González and Yimin Ye lead the technical development of AI and VR systems, while Lubin Ye focuses on interface design and user-centric functionality. Carolina Zhan Zou drives business strategy, partnerships, and scalability, and Carolina Naval ensures effective communication and stakeholder engagement.
In the mid-term, we will launch pilot programs to validate and refine Augmenta in educational settings. Long-term, we plan to scale globally, extending its use to workplaces and accessibility solutions, supported by continuous updates and data-driven improvements.
Innovativeness
Augmenta stands out as a unique solution by combining smart glasses, AI, and AR into a single system designed to break down educational barriers. Unlike existing tools that focus on isolated features like transcription or visual aids, Augmenta integrates multiple functionalities into one seamless experience. It transforms real-time lectures into accessible formats through live transcription, instant translation, and interactive visual aids like 3D models and diagrams. Additionally, it goes beyond the classroom by providing post-class summaries tailored to individual students’ needs, including key points, diagrams, and audio recaps. This combination of real-time and post-class support makes Augmenta more comprehensive and adaptive than any current solution on the market, setting a new standard for inclusive education.
Transferability
Augmenta’s solution is highly transferable, extending its applications beyond classrooms into workplaces, international conferences, and everyday situations. In professional settings, it can enhance communication during meetings, negotiations, or presentations by providing real-time transcription, translations, and visual aids. For international travelers, Augmenta can break language barriers, enabling smoother interactions. Additionally, it can support individuals with disabilities in daily life by offering accessible tools for communication and navigation. Its adaptability makes it a versatile solution for any context requiring enhanced understanding and accessibility, transforming learning and communication across disciplines.
Sustainability
Augmenta will begin by improving accessibility in educational settings through affordable, scalable solutions that can be implemented in schools, universities, and training programs.
In the mid-term, it will expand internationally, adapting to diverse educational systems and ensuring affordability for resource-constrained environments.
Over the long term, Augmenta will broaden its applications to workplaces, international conferences, and everyday life, providing value in areas like professional communication and accessibility for individuals with disabilities. Continuous updates and user-driven improvements will sustain its relevance, ensuring long-term impact across different contexts and disciplines.