• DocumentCode
    2072151
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    22-25 Nov. 2008
  • Firstpage
    218
  • Lastpage
    220
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CAIDCD.2008.4730555
  • Filename
    4730555