Designing a low-cost finger wearable audio-tactile device

Arshad Nasser

doi:10.1145/3308561.3356105

Designing a low-cost finger wearable audio-tactile device

Arshad Nasser^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper describes the design process of ColorTact, a finger wearable device for accessing audio annotations on tactile diagrams. It is designed to cater a seamless audio experience while exploring the tactile images. The device consists of a color sensor which can sense the discrete color tagged areas on the diagrams and can give the corresponding audio/sound output saved in the color-to-audio mapping profile. It also allows users to use both hands to probe tactile images without restricting the movement and the tactile sensation of finger tips. It is standalone, easy to setup, low cost, and does not use any of the complex hardware or back-end image processing methods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	691-693
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366762
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3356105
State	Published - 24 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 28 Oct 2019 → 30 Oct 2019

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Name	ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Conference	21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	28/10/19 → 30/10/19

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© 2019 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Keywords

Accessibility
Audio-tactile
Finger Wearable
Visually Impaired

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Nasser, A 2019, Designing a low-cost finger wearable audio-tactile device. in ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 691-693, 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019, Pittsburgh, United States, 28/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3356105

Designing a low-cost finger wearable audio-tactile device. / Nasser, Arshad.
ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. p. 691-693 (ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility).

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