Hooray! I get to dust off my PhD!
http://www.alasdairking.me.uk/research/PhD.htm
Big section on haptic interfaces and their use by blind people. Which
was not much. Optacon, Phantom: most useful were tactile diagrams. I
was doing a haptic interface for a system for reading maps and UML
diagrams. Wasn't much use: you spent more time figuring out the layout
than you gained in understanding it.
Of course, this was before the iOS devices and their touch screens!
Alasdair King
Sent from my Windows Phone
From: John Nissen
Sent: 12/11/2012 10:21
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Haptics in the context of Assistive Technology
Hi Emily,
I've been working full time on climate change for several years, now
being chair of AMEG [1], but before that was researching haptics and
invented a device for sending and receiving phonetic information by
hand, using fingers and thumb for both sending and receiving [2]. It
was designed for communication by deaf, blind and deafblind people in a
common tactile "language" (rather in the sense that sign language is a
language). But I never got it developed.
Cheers,
John
[1] www.ameg.me
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nissen
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On 12/11/2012 08:25, Emily Bolton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently researching the use of haptics in the context of assistive technology (especially for those with visual impairment).
>
> I want to see if people have actually seen any in use. So, my general question is:
>
> ‘What types of devices have people come across and for which populations?’
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