Prototypes of the Electronic Tactile Drawing System for Blind Persons
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- Watanabe Tetsuya
- National Institute of Special Education
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- Kobayashi Makoto
- Department of Computer Science, Tsukuba College of Technology
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 視覚障害者用電子レーズライタの試作
- シカク ショウガイシャヨウ デンシ レーズライタ ノ シサク
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Abstract
We have developed two prototypes of the electronic tactile drawing system. The first one consists of a PC, a tablet device, a tactile display device and originally programmed software. The evaluation of the system showed its potentialities for a writing and explanation tool of graphics for blind persons. It posed a few technical problems as well. One of them was separation of the input and output devices. This problem was solved in the second prototype by developing a 2-axis arm positioning system. The new system allows users to directly draw on the tactile surface and evaluators favored this feature.
Journal
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- Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan
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Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan 7 (1), 87-94, 2002
THE VIRTUAL REALITY SOCIETY OF JAPAN