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They should try Braille. It would take fewer sensors or tactors, or
whatever they call them.<br><br>
Dave<br><br>
At 02:47 PM 6/21/2018, you wrote:<br>
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Holy cow. Another way to read.<br>
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Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch<br>
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Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch<br>
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5 hours ago<br>
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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<br>
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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.<br>
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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."<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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."<br>
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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.<br>
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Along with Purdue's researchers, the team included others from MIT and
Facebook itself.<br>
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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."<br>
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The team's work was presented on June 15 the Proceedings of EuroHaptics
2018 conference in Italy.<br>
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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.</blockquote><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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