Towards Displaying Graphics on a Cheap, Large-Scale Braille Display

Elisabeth Wilhelm; Thorsten  Schwarz; Gerhard Jaworek; Achim Voigt; Bastian E. Rapp

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_102

Towards Displaying Graphics on a Cheap, Large-Scale Braille Display

Elisabeth Wilhelm^*, Thorsten Schwarz, Gerhard Jaworek, Achim Voigt, Bastian E. Rapp

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Abstract

Large-scale Braille displays will make participation in modern media society easier for visually impaired people. At the moment extensive research is done on developing new technologies for affordable refreshable Braille displays. However, the developed displays often do not match the user requirements. This is because most of the engineers entrusted with the development know little to nothing about the potential users of their systems. To bridge that gap we carried out an online survey. Within this survey 69 people who either are visually impaired themselves or take care of someone who has lost his/her sight stated their opinion on how a large-scale refreshable Braille display should be designed. The results of this survey were used to build a first prototype of a large-scale refreshable braille display for displaying text and tactile graphics. This prototype relies on cheap, energy efficient microfluidic phase change actuators.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Subtitle of host publication	ICCHP 2014
Editors	K. Miesenberger , D. Fels, D. Archambault, P. Peňáz, W. Zagler
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	662-669
Number of pages	7
Volume	8547
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-08596-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-08595-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_102
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons ICCHP 2014: Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Paris, France Duration: 9-Jul-2014 → 11-Jul-2014

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	8547
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons ICCHP 2014
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	09/07/2014 → 11/07/2014

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Wilhelm, E., Schwarz, T., Jaworek, G., Voigt, A., & Rapp, B. E. (2014). Towards Displaying Graphics on a Cheap, Large-Scale Braille Display. In K. Miesenberger , D. Fels, D. Archambault, P. Peňáz, & W. Zagler (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs: ICCHP 2014 (Vol. 8547, pp. 662-669). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8547). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_102

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ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, 09/07/2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_102

Towards Displaying Graphics on a Cheap, Large-Scale Braille Display. / Wilhelm, Elisabeth; Schwarz, Thorsten ; Jaworek, Gerhard et al.
Computers Helping People with Special Needs: ICCHP 2014. ed. / K. Miesenberger ; D. Fels; D. Archambault; P. Peňáz; W. Zagler. Vol. 8547 Cham: Springer, 2014. p. 662-669 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8547).

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