V-braille: haptic braille perception using a touch-screen and vibration on mobile phones

Authors:
Chandrika Jayant;Christine Acuario;William Johnson;Janet Hollier;Richard Ladner
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Year:
2010

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Abstract

V-Braille is a novel way to haptically represent Braille characters on a standard mobile phone using the touch-screen and vibration. V-Braille may be suitable for deaf-blind people who rely primarily on their tactile sense. A preliminary study with deaf-blind Braille users found that, with minimal training, V-Braille can be used to read individual characters and sentences.