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<p>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.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p> Roy McCutcheon</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/21/2018 7:11 PM, David Andrews via
NFBP-Talk wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:auto-000106655666@mailfront1.g2host.com">
I understand you guys reaction. However, I think there is a
question here
that is interesting, and warrants some research.<br>
<br>
Could you read Braille, from a cuff wrapped around your arm, and
if so
how fast and accurately. <br>
<br>
If so you could silently read while your hands were otherwise
occupied.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
At 05:01 PM 6/21/2018, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">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. <br>
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<b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">Roy McCutcheon via
NFBP-Talk</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, June 21, 2018 17:54<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org"
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<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:royamc1959@comcast.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">Roy
McCutcheon</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [NFBP-Talk] another way to read<br>
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<br>
I read Facebook by touch every day, using my Braille display. I
sure
won't be using that new invention.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Roy McCutcheon<br>
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On 6/21/2018 4:37 PM, Buddy Brannan via NFBP-Talk wrote:<br>
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<dd>Joe! What a fantastic idea! You should patent that…oh
wait… <br>
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<dd>On Jun 21, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Drenth, Joe via NFBP-Talk
<<a href="mailto:nfbp-talk@nfbnet.org"
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<dd>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? <br>
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<dd>Joseph Drenth <br>
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<dd>Senior R&D Software Engineer <br>
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<dd>JBT Corporation | Automated Systems <br>
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<dd>400 Highpoint Drive <br>
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<dd>Chalfont, PA 18914, USA<br>
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P: 215 822 4457<br>
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<dd>Subject: [NFBP-Talk] another way to read<br>
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<dd>Holy cow. Another way to read.<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
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<dd>________________________________<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>From New Atlas<br>
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</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>Facebook wants you to read your messages by touch<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
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<dd> <br>
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<dd>5 hours ago<br>
</dd>
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<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>Forearmed is forewarned: The Purdue wearable includes
24 vibrating
devices which can alter the location and intensity of a
Facebook
alert<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>"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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>Along with Purdue's researchers, the team included
others from MIT
and Facebook itself.<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>"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>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>The team's work was presented on June 15 the
Proceedings of
EuroHaptics 2018 conference in Italy.<br>
</dd>
<dd> <br>
</dd>
<dd>The research was previously mentioned at Facebook's F8
development
conference last year, along with a brain-typing
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keyboard. Facebook's
purchase of Oculus sees the company also plowing funds
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(or when) its
social network fizzles out.
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