[NFBP-Talk] another way to read

Fri Jun 22 13:43:38 UTC 2018

I was envisioning something next to me or even on the steering wheel I could
run my finger over. 

Roy I have a quick question for you. Do you mind writing me at:

b.butterfly at comcast.net <mailto:b.butterfly at comcast.net> 

Becky  

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Subject: Re: [NFBP-Talk] another way to read

No, I could not read Braille from a cuff wrapped around my arm. Nor do I
think I could read anything else, such as print, from a cuff wrapped around
my arm. I don't think it would work well at all.

     Roy McCutcheon

On 6/21/2018 7:11 PM, David Andrews via NFBP-Talk wrote:

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: Roy McCutcheon via NFBP-Talk <mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org> 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 17:54
To: Buddy Brannan via NFBP-Talk <mailto:nfbp-talk at nfbnet.org> 
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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.

     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
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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? 

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Holy cow. Another way to read.

Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch

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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
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