FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go
Visually impaired people report numerous difficulties with accessing printed text using existing technology, including problems with alignment, focus, accuracy, mobility and efficiency. We present a finger worn device that assists the visually impaired with effectively and efficiently reading paper-...
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| author | Shilkrot, Roy Huber, Jochen Nanayakkara, Suranga Liu, Connie K. Maes, Patricia |
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| description | Visually impaired people report numerous difficulties with accessing printed text using existing technology, including problems with alignment, focus, accuracy, mobility and efficiency. We present a finger worn device that assists the visually impaired with effectively and efficiently reading paper-printed text. We introduce a novel, local-sequential manner for scanning text which enables reading single lines, blocks of text or skimming the text for important sections while providing real-time auditory and tactile feedback. The design is motivated by preliminary studies with visually impaired people, and it is small-scale and mobile, which enables a more manageable operation with little setup. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/924362022-10-01T12:52:42Z FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go Shilkrot, Roy Huber, Jochen Nanayakkara, Suranga Liu, Connie K. Maes, Patricia Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Shilkrot, Roy Huber, Jochen Liu, Connie K. Maes, Patricia Visually impaired people report numerous difficulties with accessing printed text using existing technology, including problems with alignment, focus, accuracy, mobility and efficiency. We present a finger worn device that assists the visually impaired with effectively and efficiently reading paper-printed text. We introduce a novel, local-sequential manner for scanning text which enables reading single lines, blocks of text or skimming the text for important sections while providing real-time auditory and tactile feedback. The design is motivated by preliminary studies with visually impaired people, and it is small-scale and mobile, which enables a more manageable operation with little setup. 2014-12-22T16:57:15Z 2014-12-22T16:57:15Z 2014-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450324748 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92436 Roy Shilkrot, Jochen Huber, Connie Liu, Pattie Maes, and Suranga Chandima Nanayakkara. 2014. FingerReader: a wearable device to support text reading on the go. In CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2359-2364. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-4254 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581220 Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA '14) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Shilkrot, Roy Huber, Jochen Nanayakkara, Suranga Liu, Connie K. Maes, Patricia FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title | FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title_full | FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title_fullStr | FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title_full_unstemmed | FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title_short | FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Support Text Reading on the Go |
| title_sort | fingerreader a wearable device to support text reading on the go |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92436 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9154-4254 |
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