Title : 
The automatic book page turner for disabled individuals
         
        
            Author : 
Xuan Zheng ; Yuanwu Shi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Art & Design, Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Reading books, magazines, and printed materials is an essential activity of daily living. Turning pages of a book or magazine is often cumbersome for avid readers and disabled individuals. An automatic page turner can serve as an assistive technology for people with disabilities and people with limited upper-body extremity function. A page turner can provide avid readers with convenient book support and page turning features. The purpose of the research is try to find a better new form of a automatic page turner that will help such disabled people to complete the motions of turning pages so that to satisfy the desire of reading and learning.
         
        
            Keywords : 
handicapped aids; assistive technology; automatic book page turner; book support; disabled individuals; learning; reading; Books; Automatic page turner; disabled individuals; microprocessor;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, 2008. CAID/CD 2008. 9th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kunming
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3290-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CAIDCD.2008.4730555