The Development of a Music Presentation System by Two Vibrators

We have been developing the Body-Braille system, which transmits Braille characters to disabled people through vibrations on any part of the body. Five years ago, we began working on music applications of this. Using 9 micro vibrators, any melody with a sound range less than 2 octaves can be express...

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Published inComputers Helping People with Special Needs pp. 602 - 605
Main Authors Sasaki, Nobuyuki, Ohtsuka, Satoshi, Ishii, Kazuyoshi, Harakawa, Tetsumi
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Body-Braille
Deaf-blind People
Music
Vibration
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Summary:We have been developing the Body-Braille system, which transmits Braille characters to disabled people through vibrations on any part of the body. Five years ago, we began working on music applications of this. Using 9 micro vibrators, any melody with a sound range less than 2 octaves can be expressed by vibration. Last year, we developed the music presentation system using only two vibrators. Using special equipment (Pocket-Body braille, Pocket-Bbrll), we performed two experiments and obtained successful results for applying a small number of vibrations to music expression. The details of the system to present music tone by vibration and the results of the experiment are described.
ISBN:3319085956
9783319085951
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_93