A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers
This paper introduces a novel concept on reading assistive technologies for the blind: the TactoBook, a system that is able to translate entire electronic books (eBooks) to Braille code and to reproduce them in portable electronic Braille terminals. The TactoBook consists of a computer-based transla...
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| description | This paper introduces a novel concept on reading assistive technologies for the blind: the TactoBook, a system that is able to translate entire electronic books (eBooks) to Braille code and to reproduce them in portable electronic Braille terminals. The TactoBook consists of a computer-based translator that converts fast and automatically any eBook into Braille. The Braille version of the eBook is then encrypted as a file and stored in a USB memory drive which is later inserted and reproduced in a compact, lightweight, and highly-portable tactile terminal. In particular, this paper presents a piezoelectric ultrasonic actuation approach to design and implement such portable Braille terminal. Actuating mechanism, design concept, first prototype, and performance results are presented and discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a83bbdb99a04443c99d407f201b09af92025-02-03T05:49:41ZengWileyApplied Bionics and Biomechanics1176-23221754-21032012-01-0191456010.3233/ABB-2012-0055A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille ReadersRamiro Velázquez0Hermes Hernández1Enrique Preza2Mecatrónica y Control de Sistemas, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, MexicoMecatrónica y Control de Sistemas, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, MexicoMecatrónica y Control de Sistemas, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, MexicoThis paper introduces a novel concept on reading assistive technologies for the blind: the TactoBook, a system that is able to translate entire electronic books (eBooks) to Braille code and to reproduce them in portable electronic Braille terminals. The TactoBook consists of a computer-based translator that converts fast and automatically any eBook into Braille. The Braille version of the eBook is then encrypted as a file and stored in a USB memory drive which is later inserted and reproduced in a compact, lightweight, and highly-portable tactile terminal. In particular, this paper presents a piezoelectric ultrasonic actuation approach to design and implement such portable Braille terminal. Actuating mechanism, design concept, first prototype, and performance results are presented and discussed.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ABB-2012-0055 |
| spellingShingle | Ramiro Velázquez Hermes Hernández Enrique Preza A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers Applied Bionics and Biomechanics |
| title | A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers |
| title_full | A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers |
| title_short | A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers |
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