Title :
A low cost microelectromechanical Braille for blind people to communicate with blind or deaf blind people through SMS subsystem
Author :
Sarkar, Rituparna ; Das, S. ; Rudrapal, D.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sc. & Eng. Dept., NIT Agartala, Agartala, India
Abstract :
Due to the lack of vision, the blind people cannot easily access the latest information and the technologies which can provide them an alternating communication expertise. Modern technological enhancements cannot be easily affordable to the visually impaired people because of their higher cost and the less portability. That is why it has become pretty necessary to develop a low cost, portable and a fast Braille System for the visually impaired people. This paper introduces a new communication channel for the deaf blind and visually impaired people which consist of three different subsystems providing different facilities to improve the communication skill of the visually impaired people. The system consists of the following three modules: i) a portable low cost refreshable Body-Braille system for displaying Braille characters using six micro vibrators. ii) an easy Braille writer for writing the Braille characters and iii) a remote communication system through SMS. This new communication system is cheap, portable, fast and accurate.
Keywords :
electronic messaging; handicapped aids; hearing; micromechanical devices; user interfaces; vision defects; Braille character display; Braille character writing; Braille writer; SMS subsystem; communication channel; communication skill; deaf blind people; information access; low cost microelectromechanical Braille; microvibrators; portable low cost refreshable Body-Braille system; remote communication system; technological enhancement; visually impaired people; Actuators; Communication channels; Communication systems; Computers; Keyboards; Vibrations; Writing; Braille; Deaf-blind; SMS; micro vibrators; visually impaired;
Conference_Titel :
Advance Computing Conference (IACC), 2013 IEEE 3rd International
Conference_Location :
Ghaziabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4527-9
DOI :
10.1109/IAdCC.2013.6514454