[accessibleimage] Re: New Touch Screens Allow Blind to Read Braille

There's a slight correction to the statement below:
it should read:
"New display technology is allowing users to “feel” touch screens, giving the 
blind a way to tactually interact with mobile devices."
On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Lisa Yayla wrote:

Hi,

Interesting article from Forbes about touch screens using tixels or tactile 
pixels.

I think there is a small inaccuracy in the article and that is that the company 
Senseg seems to be

in Finland and not Sweden.

http://senseg.com/

Regards,

Lisa

Excerpt

New Touch Screens Allow Blind to Read Braille

New display technology is allowing users to “feel” touch screens, giving the 
blind a way to interact with mobile devices.

Senseg’s E-Sense technology, being developed in Sweden, recreates the sensation 
of different textures on touch screen devices. It uses “tixels,” or “tactile 
pixels,” to generate an electric field a few millimeters above the device’s 
surface, enabling skin to feel finely tuned sensations replicating different 
textures.

The technology is similar to the concept of haptic feedback, which vibrates to 
confirm that a finger touch has been accepted, but has even farther-reaching 
implications.

Braille reading would be one immediate application for the technology. The 
blind and visually-impaired would be able to take advantage of the 
tactile-pixel technology, assisting them in reading messages on touch screen 
devices like smartphones. Down the road, the technology may even allow people 
to, for example, touch the face of a newborn baby or hold the hand of the 
long-lost friend.

Senseg said the technology may also create knobs, buttons and other tactile 
elements for the increasingly-popular mobile gaming market. Handset makers, 
currently struggle for placement of controls on the limited space of 
smartphones, may also find a use for tactile displays.

 

 

http://blogs.forbes.com/mobiledia/2011/07/12/new-touch-screens-allow-blind-to-read-braille/#post_comments

 


 


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