Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging

Arshad Nasser; Kening Zhu; P. V.M. Rao

doi:10.1145/3267305.3267583

Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging

Arshad Nasser, Kening Zhu, P. V.M. Rao

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Abstract

The conventional tactile diagrams for the visually impaired people are usually limited to a finite number of annotations and its associated Braille legend can extend to several pages. This in turn makes the tactile books bulky and cumbersome. To address this issue, we present the design of ColorTact, a finger-worn assistive device for visually impaired to explore tactile diagrams with audio feedback. The device leverages color-printed tactile diagrams and associates audio supplement to various colors to provide additional information about a single-page tactile diagram. The ColorTact device consists of a color sensor paired with a smart phone app which can play a preset audio information about the distinctive areas of a tactile diagram. Furthermore, the device was designed not to hinder any natural finger movements or tactile sensation. Eliminating the need of additional appendixes for tactile diagrams, the ColorTact device aims to support visually impaired students to learn graphic intensive subjects in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	178-181
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359665
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583
State	Published - 8 Oct 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 8 Oct 2018 → 12 Oct 2018

Publication series

Name	UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Conference

Conference	2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	8/10/18 → 12/10/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Keywords

Audio
Finger wearable
Tactile diagram
Tactile graphics
Visually impaired

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Systems

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Nasser, A., Zhu, K., & Rao, P. V. M. (2018). Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. In UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 178-181). (UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583

Nasser, Arshad ; Zhu, Kening ; Rao, P. V.M. / Poster : Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. pp. 178-181 (UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers).

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Nasser, A, Zhu, K & Rao, PVM 2018, Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. in UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 178-181, 2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018, Singapore, Singapore, 8/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583

Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. / Nasser, Arshad; Zhu, Kening; Rao, P. V.M.
UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. p. 178-181 (UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Nasser A, Zhu K, Rao PVM. Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. In UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2018. p. 178-181. (UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers). doi: 10.1145/3267305.3267583

Poster: Colortact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging

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