[blindza] NOKIA C5
- From: "Estie Van Zyl" <Estie.VanZyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "NAPSA Blind" <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:32:58 +0200
HI
I HAVE AS C5 BUT THERE IS NO ZOOM ON IT,AND I REALY NEED THAT WITH TE TALKS.
IS THERE ANY ONE HOW CAN HELP ME WITH TE SOFT WARE FOR ZOOM TEX?
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From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:26 AM
To: NAPSA Blind; BlindZA
Subject: [blindza] Fw: Through USAMRMC vision portfolio, injured Soldiers are
able to see again
Probably a relatively positive thing that guys like the US army is paying
some attention to things like this.
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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Through USAMRMC vision portfolio, injured Soldiers are able to see again.
January 30, 2012.
By Ms Tiffany R Holloway (Army Medicine).
February is Low Vision Awareness Month, a campaign that was started to raise
awareness for macular degeneration and other vision problems. Low vision
affects
a person's entire life, interfering with the ability to perform daily
activities. The term low vision means partial sight, or visual impairment
that
is not correctable with contact lenses or eyeglasses. We often take for
granted
that we have our sight, or that we can smell, touch, hear, and taste.
Tragedy
can strike at any time, even more so when on the battlefield.
"That's why the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command has decided
to
aide injured Soldiers," said Col. Karl Friedl, director of the Telemedicine
and
Advanced Technology Research Center.
Under its vision portfolio, TATRC funded and investigated technologies for
non-invasive vision sensory substitution and augmentation in order to allow
wounded warriors to return to more normal social interactions. These efforts
range from being able to navigate without a cane to having improved visual
acuity throughout a range of injuries.
Over 18 months, the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
developed
a prototype called the Anthro-Centric Multisensory Interface for Vision
Augmentation/Substitution system. This system has the potential to give the
sense of vision to include peripheral vision. This information may help to
improve a blind individual's situational awareness, according to Robert C.
Read,
program manager for Vision, Diabetes and Pain Research at TATRC.
One of the first experiments performed in the realm of sensory substitution
involved pilots flying and executing aerobatics while blindfolded. The
pilots
were getting all of their veridical information from an early version of the
tactile situation awareness system, or TSAS (a U.S. Army Aeromedical
Research
Laboratory, a subcommand of MRMC, development). With the TSAS system, these
pilots could still successfully perform maneuvers in the air without visual
input.
"They improved the user control interfaces and developed a method to allow
tactual understanding of color. The final portion of this grant will focus
on
human research participant testing and evaluation, data analysis, drafting a
publication detailing the results, and development of the final ACMI-VAS
prototype design specification document," said Dr. Anil Raj, Institute for
Human
and Machine Cognition.
The main systems used for these human-centered interfaces are auditory and
tactile displays. One of the displays includes a TSAS. The other two
tactical
displays are the Videotact (ForeThought Development, LLC, Blue Mounds,
Wis.),
and BrainPort (Wicab, Inc., Middleton, Wis.) electro tactile tongue
displays.
The purpose of these technologies is to attempt to help vision and balance
function.
Sounds are displayed tactually on the tongue or abdomen to allow individuals
to
recognize human speech. Speech recognition technology is used to increase
saliency of human speech components against the background of other sounds
in
order to recognize words that would have been spoken. In addition to
augmenting
auditory capabilities, Dr. Raj and his team are working to augment visual
capabilities by methods such as incorporating 3-dimensional models of the
environment in real time.
The non-invasive nature of the ACMI approach ensures that wounded warriors
could
benefit from future upgrades as technologies improve without risks of
further
surgeries or infection associated with implantable devices. The proposed
complementary interface displays can be tailored to suit the needs of an
individual.
Raj said, "For example, an injury that spared the peripheral vision may only
require the higher resolution displays, whereas a condition like hemianopsia
might only require a low-resolution spatial awareness component."
This proposed technology development will result in a single integrated
system
prototype capable of providing an alternative mechanism for visual sensing
of
high-resolution central vision, low-resolution peripheral vision, and
stabilization of the imagery despite perturbations of the head.
"Even profoundly blind individuals may benefit from the modularity of the
system
as they could choose to use specific displays for any given activity," said
Read.
Raj added, the use of the ACMI software agent framework ensures that
integration
of improvements in any of the major technologies, including sensing devices
like
a camera and interfaces (potentially even implantable ones) will occur
quickly,
speeding up evaluation of incremental changes and their deployment to the
users.
Collaborations like this give hope and a sense of encouragement to wounded
warriors who may have lost their sight to make the most of remaining vision
and
realize that life does go on … with them.
Source URL:
http://www.army.mil/article/72738/Through_USAMRMC_vision_portfolio__injured_Soldiers_are_able_to_see_again/
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