[NFBP-Talk] another way to read

Thu Jun 21 23:11:11 UTC 2018

I understand you guys reaction. However, I think 
there is a question here that is interesting, and warrants some research.

Could you read Braille, from a cuff wrapped 
around your arm, and if so how fast and accurately.

If so you could silently read while your hands were otherwise occupied.

Dave

At 05:01 PM 6/21/2018, you wrote:
>This new facebook by touch thing is a waste. 
>Someone should email them and tell them that 
>braille is the best tactile alphabet out there.
>
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>From: <mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org>Roy McCutcheon via NFBP-Talk
>Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 17:54
>To: <mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org>Buddy Brannan via NFBP-Talk
>Cc: <mailto:royamc1959 at comcast.net>Roy McCutcheon
>Subject: Re: [NFBP-Talk] another way to read
>
>
>I read Facebook by touch every day, using my 
>Braille display. I sure won't be using that new invention.
>
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>      Roy McCutcheon
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>On 6/21/2018 4:37 PM, Buddy Brannan via NFBP-Talk wrote:
>Joe! What a fantastic idea! You should patent that
oh wait

>
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>On Jun 21, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Drenth, Joe via 
>NFBP-Talk <<mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org>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
>E: <mailto:joe.drenth at jbtc.com>joe.drenth at jbtc.com  P: 215 822 4457
><http://www.jbtc-agv.com/>www.jbtc-agv.com
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>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
>
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>Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch
>
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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
>
>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.
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>
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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.
>
>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.

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