A Portable Piezoelectric Tactile Terminal for Braille Readers

This paper introduces a novel concept on reading assistive technologies for the blind: the TactoBook, a system that is able to translate entire electronic books (eBooks) to Braille code and to reproduce them in portable electronic Braille terminals. The TactoBook consists of a computer-based transla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ramiro Velázquez, Hermes Hernández, Enrique Preza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ABB-2012-0055