[NFBP-Talk] another way to read

Thu Jun 21 23:02:19 UTC 2018

They should try Braille. It would take fewer sensors or tactors, or 
whatever they call them.

Dave

At 02:47 PM 6/21/2018, you wrote:
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>Holy cow. Another way to read.
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>Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch
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> From New Atlas
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>Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch
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>James 
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>5 hours ago
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>Forearmed is forewarned: The Purdue wearable includes 24 vibrating 
>devices which can alter the location and intensity of a Facebook alert
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>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.
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>"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."
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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."
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>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.
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>Along with Purdue's researchers, the team included others from MIT 
>and Facebook itself.
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>"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."
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>The team's work was presented on June 15 the Proceedings of 
>EuroHaptics 2018 conference in Italy.
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>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.

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