Portable communication aid for deaf blind people

Author

Su, Mu-Chun ; Chen, Chia-Yl ; Su, Shi-Yong ; Chien-Hsing Chou ; Hsiu, Hsiang-Feng ; Wang, Yu-Chine

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

43

Abstract

The development of a portable communication aid, which allows deaf-blind people to communicate with others without the help of an assistant, is reviewed. The system comprises two major units: one for deaf-blind people and the other for sighted people. A deaf-blind person can send messages by typing on a Braille terminal and the messages will be converted to Mandarin phonetic symbols, which are then displayed on an LCD display to be read by a sighted partner. Then the sighted partner can send messages back by typing on a simple keyboard and the messages will be displayed on a Braille display to be ´read´ by the blind-deaf person. The aid has been designed to be effective, reliable and inexpensive. Some experimental results are reported to demonstrate the applicability of the aid.

Keywords

computer displays; handicapped aids; interactive terminals; Braille display; Braille terminal; LCD display; Mandarin phonetic symbols; deaf blind people; portable communication aid; sighted people;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing & Control Engineering Journal

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0956-3385

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/cce:20010106

Filename

905756