Development and Evaluation of Refreshable Braille Display and Active Touch-Reading System for Digital Reading of the Visually Impaired

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 32; pp. 934 - 945
• Main Authors: Chen, Dapeng, Zhang, Yunjie, Hu, Xuhui, Chen, Geng, Fang, Yingping, Chen, Xu, Liu, Jia, Song, Aiguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: active Braille touch-reading; Actuators; Blindness; Braille; Braille display device; Coils; digital reading for the BVI; Display devices; electromagnetic drive; Energy consumption; Equipment Design; Fingers; Finite element method; Force; full latching function; Humans; Manganese; Performance tests; Probes; Reading; Sensory Aids; Tactile stimuli; Touch; User-Computer Interface; Virtual environments; Virtual reality; Visual impairment

The traditional way of reading through Braille books is constraining the reading experience of blind or visually impaired (BVI) in the digital age. In order to improve the reading convenience of BVI, this paper proposes a low-cost and refreshable Braille display device, and solves the problems of hi...