[Njtechdiv] feeling fireworks
Mario Brusco
mrb620 at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 2 15:54:27 UTC 2017
Disney Creates Low Cost Solution For Blind To ‘Feel Fireworks
https://coolblindtech.com/disney-creates-low-cost-solution-for-blind-to-feel-fireworks/
by Nelson Régo
On October 24, 2017
Imagine feeling the dazzling Disney fireworks display — when you cannot
see them.
Disney Research is working on a way to share the fireworks experience
with the blind and visually-impaired.
The system uses water jets that spray onto a screen, which are synced up
with the show in the sky.
Feeling Fireworks is aimed at making fireworks more inclusive for blind
and visually impaired users, in a novel experience that can be shared by
all. Tactile effects are created using directable water jets that spray
onto the rear of a flexible screen, with different nozzles for different
firework effects.
It is low-cost and allows for dynamic tactile effects to be rendered
with high spatial resolution. A user study demonstrated that the tactile
effects are meaningful analogs to the visual fireworks that they
represent, with sighted users able to label the correct correspondence
of tactile-to-visual effects by a large margin over chance. Beyond the
specific application, the technology represents a novel and
cost-ffective approach for making large scalable tactile displays, with
the potential for wider use.
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