ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging

Arshad nasser; Kening Zhu; PVM Rao

doi:10.1145/3267305.3267583

ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging

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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).

Original language	English
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
Pages	178-181
ISBN (Print)	9781450359665
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018
Event	2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018) and 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018) - Suntec Singapore, Singapore Duration: 8 Oct 2018 → 12 Oct 2018 http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2018/ http://iswc.net/iswc18/

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Name	Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher	ACM

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Conference	2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018) and 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018)
Place	Singapore
Period	8/10/18 → 12/10/18
Internet address	http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2018/ http://iswc.net/iswc18/

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Audio
Finger wearable
Tactile diagram
Tactile graphics
Visually impaired

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nasser, A., Zhu, K., & Rao, PVM. (2018). ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. In 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 (pp. 178-181). (Ubiquitous Computing). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583

nasser, Arshad ; Zhu, Kening ; Rao, PVM. / ColorTact : A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. 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, 2018. pp. 178-181 (Ubiquitous Computing).

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nasser, A , Zhu, K & Rao, PVM 2018, ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. in 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. Ubiquitous Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 178-181, 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2018) and 2018 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2018), Singapore, 8/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267583

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, 2018. p. 178-181 (Ubiquitous Computing).

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nasser A , Zhu K, Rao PVM. ColorTact: A Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device Using Customizable Color Tagging. In 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. 2018. p. 178-181. (Ubiquitous Computing). doi: 10.1145/3267305.3267583

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