ColorTact : A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | UbiComp/ISWC '18 Adjunct |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 178-181 |
| ISBN (print) | 9781450359665 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Ubiquitous Computing |
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| Publisher | ACM |
Conference
| Title | 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018) and 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018) |
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| Location | Suntec Singapore |
| Place | Singapore |
| Period | 8 - 12 October 2018 |
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Abstract
The conventional tactile diagrams for the visually impaired people are usually limited to a finite number of annotations and its associated Braille legend can extend to several pages. This in turn makes the tactile books bulky and cumbersome. To address this issue, we present the design of ColorTact, a finger-worn assistive device for visually impaired to explore tactile diagrams with audio feedback. The device leverages color-printed tactile diagrams and associates audio supplement to various colors to provide additional information about a single-page tactile diagram. The ColorTact device consists of a color sensor paired with a smart phone app which can play a preset audio information about the distinctive areas of a tactile diagram. Furthermore, the device was designed not to hinder any natural finger movements or tactile sensation. Eliminating the need of additional appendixes for tactile diagrams, the ColorTact device aims to support visually impaired students to learn graphic intensive subjects in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Research Area(s)
- Audio, Finger wearable, Tactile diagram, Tactile graphics, Visually impaired
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ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. / nasser, Arshad; Zhu, Kening; Rao, PVM.
UbiComp/ISWC '18 Adjunct : Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 178-181 (Ubiquitous Computing).
UbiComp/ISWC '18 Adjunct : Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 178-181 (Ubiquitous Computing).
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
