[NFBP-Talk] another way to read

Thu Jun 21 21:52:11 UTC 2018

I read Facebook by touch every day, using my Braille display. I sure 
won't be using that new invention.

      Roy McCutcheon

On 6/21/2018 4:37 PM, Buddy Brannan via NFBP-Talk wrote:
> Joe! What a fantastic idea! You should patent that…oh wait…
>
>> On Jun 21, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Drenth, Joe via NFBP-Talk 
>> <nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Wow, a forearm cuff that someone can feel is an interesting idea, but 
>> frankly, someone already invented a way to read by feel, and it is 
>> much more practical. Instead of 24 different touch transmitters, I 
>> wonder if they ever thought of using just six?
>>
>> Joseph Drenth
>> Senior R&D Software Engineer
>>
>> JBT Corporation  |  Automated Systems
>>
>> 400 Highpoint Drive
>> Chalfont, PA  18914, USA
>>
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>>
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>>
>> *From:*NFBP-Talk [mailto:nfbp-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] *On Behalf Of 
>> *Becky Frankeberger via NFBP-Talk
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:47 PM
>> *To:* 'NFB of Pennsylvania Talk, state list'
>> *Cc:* Becky Frankeberger
>> *Subject:* [NFBP-Talk] another way to read
>>
>> Holy cow. Another way to read.
>>
>> Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From New Atlas
>>
>> Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch
>>
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>>
>> James 
>> Holloway<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTgwNjE5LjkxMzczMzcxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE4MDYxOS45MTM3MzM3MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MTc2OTUwJmVtYWlsaWQ9bm5pZ2h0aW5nYWxlQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0JnVzZXJpZD1ubmlnaHRpbmdhbGVAY29tY2FzdC5uZXQmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&103&&&https://newatlas.com/author/james-holloway/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery 
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>>
>> 5 hours ago
>>
>> Forearmed is forewarned: The Purdue wearable includes 24 vibrating 
>> devices which can alter the location and intensity of a Facebook alert
>>
>> As part of Facebook's ongoing quest to be first to capitalize on The 
>> Next Big Thing in Technology (whatever it turns out to be), the 
>> social media juggernaut has written a check for some Purdue College 
>> research into haptic technology that can not only alert you to new 
>> messages through your skin, but read them too.
>>
>> "I'm excited about this," lead researcher Hong Tan says in a Purdue 
>> press release. "Imagine a future where you're able to wear a sleeve 
>> that discreetly sends messages to you - through your skin - in times 
>> when it may be inconvenient to look at a text message."
>>
>> Before we panic too much about invasive implants, at this point the 
>> research uses a wearable cuff which wraps around the wearer's entire 
>> forearm. The wearable includes 24 vibrating devices which can alter 
>> the location and intensity of the alert. The researchers call these 
>> vibrating devices "tactors," but strictly speaking, a tactor is a 
>> touch sensor rather than an emitter.
>>
>> It's this variety in the vibrations that allows the technology to 
>> relay message content. The researchers have mapped all 39 phonemes of 
>> the English language to different vibrations, phonemes being the 
>> audible sounds that make up spoken words. The researchers 
>> differentiated consonants from vowels by keeping them static, while 
>> vowel sensations move in varying directions.
>>
>> The research was geared towards the ease of learning using two 
>> different approaches: one based on phonemes and the other on letters. 
>> Twelve participants were asked to learn 100 words in 100 minutes. 
>> Though results varied significantly, with both methods some users 
>> achieved an accuracy of over 90 percent. However, the researchers 
>> found that phonemes proved easier to learn. Tan points out that the 
>> typical word contains fewer phonemes than letters.
>>
>> The researchers worked out a training schedule of 10 minutes a day 
>> which they think would be practical for most users. "It is more 
>> efficient than if they sit here for three hours to study," Tan 
>> reasons. "You can't keep good concentration for that long."
>>
>> Clearly, any technology that can relay messages through touch could 
>> prove relevant to people with impairments to seeing and hearing, but 
>> the potential applications are much broader - from receiving messages 
>> on the go, or where message privacy is a cause for concern.
>>
>> Along with Purdue's researchers, the team included others from MIT 
>> and Facebook itself.
>>
>> "I'm really hoping this takes off as a general idea for a new way to 
>> communicate," Tan adds. "When that happens, the hearing-impaired, the 
>> visually-impaired, everyone can benefit."
>>
>> The team's work was presented on June 15 the Proceedings of 
>> EuroHaptics 2018 conference in Italy.
>>
>> The research was previously mentioned at Facebook's F8 development 
>> conference last year, along with a brain-typing 
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>> purportedly five times faster than using a keyboard. Facebook's 
>> purchase of Oculus sees the company also plowing funds into virtual 
>> and augmented reality 
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>> Clearly the company wants to be well positioned if (or when) its 
>> social network fizzles out.
>>
>> Source: Purdue 
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>>
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