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Touchable online braille generator

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Wooseob JeongAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '05: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 188 - 189

https://doi.org/10.1145/1090785.1090823

Published: 09 October 2005 Publication History

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Using the force feedback technology which has been used in video games for years, a prototype of an online Braille generator was developed for the visually impaired or blind user. Without any expensive devices, the prototype lets sightless persons use the information on the web by touching the output Braille displays on screen with a mouse. User studies will be conducted with blind people, and their data will provide valuable information about the optimal conditions for the online Braille display in the prototype, such as how strong the force should be and how big those Braille dots should be. The final product of this research will enable visually impaired people to enjoy all the library services and resources as well as the enormous amount of information on the web more freely.

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Jayant CAcuario CJohnson WHollier JLadner RBarreto AHanson V(2010)V-brailleProceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility10.1145/1878803.1878878(295-296)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2010
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Charoenchaimonkon EJanecek PHamratanaphon VAng WPhantachat W(2009)Using advanced encryption standard to secure the content dissemination of electronic Braille booksProceedings of the 3rd International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology10.1145/1592700.1592737(1-5)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2009
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Jeong W(2007)Force feedback textual and graphic displays for the blindProceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/meet.1450430115643:1(1-11)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2007
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Touchable online braille generator
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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Assets '05: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2005

232 pages

ISBN:1595931597

DOI:10.1145/1090785

General Chair:
Andrew Sears
UMBC
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Enrico Pontelli
New Mexico State University

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Jayant CAcuario CJohnson WHollier JLadner RBarreto AHanson V(2010)V-brailleProceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility10.1145/1878803.1878878(295-296)Online publication date: 25-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1878803.1878878
Charoenchaimonkon EJanecek PHamratanaphon VAng WPhantachat W(2009)Using advanced encryption standard to secure the content dissemination of electronic Braille booksProceedings of the 3rd International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology10.1145/1592700.1592737(1-5)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1592700.1592737
Jeong W(2007)Force feedback textual and graphic displays for the blindProceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/meet.1450430115643:1(1-11)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2007
https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301156

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