• DocumentCode
    250316
  • Title

    A feasibility study of communication with cold stimulations

  • Author

    Budak, Erdem Inanc ; Yildiz, Metin

  • Author_Institution
    Biyomedikal Muhendisligi Bolumu, Baskent Univ., Ankara, Turkey
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    16-17 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Some part of available sytems which requires surgery (cohlear implant) for communication of completely deaf people, other parts just heal for one side hearing impaired people (soundbite technologies). Thus, there are lot of research of tactiles that are methods for communication through skin. However, existing communication systems´s speed are too low, also devices couldn´t move because, they working with electricity and have big massive. In this paper we have developed alternative communication method that the system uses cold stimulus for transfer characters through skin and also first tests have been done. We used peltiers for exist to cold stimuli and developed a computer based control system to transfer to peltiers via coding. We saw that subjects perceived two stimulus per second at one point of their forearms. But when we used more than one stimulus for coding characters, perception percent get low. Overall of results, we prove that communication with thermal way is alternative method that gives promise.
  • Keywords
    biothermics; cochlear implants; handicapped aids; touch (physiological); coding; cohlear implant; cold stimulations; communication; completely deaf people; computer based control system; hearing impaired people; peltiers; perception percent; skin; soundbite technologies; thermal way; Auditory system; Encoding; Implants; Skin; Temperature measurement; Vibrations; Web sites;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Engineering Meeting (BIYOMUT), 2014 18th National
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BIYOMUT.2014.7026337
  • Filename
    7026337