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'Haptics' display sought to bring graphics to the blind |
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| Written by R. Colin Johnson, on 15-11-2007 21:54 |
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The EE who co-invented the electret microphone was recently recruited to help create the world's first graphical "haptic" display
for the blind. James West, an electrical engineer, was awarded
America's highest technical honor--the National Medal of Technology--for his work
on the electret's charged polymer film that converts motion into an
electrical signal.
For the National Science Foundation-funded haptic display
project, West wants to turn this concept around by sending signals to
an electro-active polymer that responds with motion on its surface. The
researchers hope their efforts will result in a display of graphical
patterns for the blind to feel with their hands.
The project was dubbed, "A Dynamic Tactile Interface for Visually
Impaired and Blind People," by team leader, Ilona Kretzschmar, an
engineering professor at The City College of New York, who says she
wants to "develop a viable dynamic tactile interface that allows
graphic and pictorial information to be presented in real time in
tactile rather than visual space."
Read more about this on CMP Media's Online eeTimes
Recommend this article... Last update: 19-11-2007 10:50
| Published in : Disabled Gamers News, General News |
| Keywords : engineering, information, kretzschmar, interface, pictorial, presented, professor, impaired, visually, college, |
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