TY - GEN
T1 - Development of Communication Assistive Technology for Persons with Deaf-Blindness and Physical Limitation
AU - Hatakeyama, Takuro
AU - Watanabe, Takashi
AU - Takahashi, Kiriko
AU - Doi, Kouki
AU - Fukuda, Akiko
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The purpose of this study was to develop a system that will provide communication assistance to persons with deaf-blindness and physical limitation, so that they will be able to communicate with others without the help of an interpreter. With this communication system, a person with deaf-blindness and physical limitation uses a control switch to perform input operations based on the duration of the operating time and combination of long and short pulses. When the input is correctly performed, the user receives a feedback from the tablet computer as vibratory stimuli. Similarly, the message that other person's input with a Bluetooth keyboard is transmitted to the user as vibration stimuli. Following the development, we conducted a one-year assessment of the developed communication system in an actual environment with the cooperation of one person with deaf-blindness and physical limitation. We confirmed that our developed system was useful for such a person, and understood that we must improve upon several aspects. We shall pursue further study, and will aim at providing a better communication environment for persons with deaf-blindness and physical limitation in future.
AB - The purpose of this study was to develop a system that will provide communication assistance to persons with deaf-blindness and physical limitation, so that they will be able to communicate with others without the help of an interpreter. With this communication system, a person with deaf-blindness and physical limitation uses a control switch to perform input operations based on the duration of the operating time and combination of long and short pulses. When the input is correctly performed, the user receives a feedback from the tablet computer as vibratory stimuli. Similarly, the message that other person's input with a Bluetooth keyboard is transmitted to the user as vibration stimuli. Following the development, we conducted a one-year assessment of the developed communication system in an actual environment with the cooperation of one person with deaf-blindness and physical limitation. We confirmed that our developed system was useful for such a person, and understood that we must improve upon several aspects. We shall pursue further study, and will aim at providing a better communication environment for persons with deaf-blindness and physical limitation in future.
KW - Braille Morse code
KW - communication assistance
KW - Deaf-blindness
KW - physical limitation
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-974
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-974
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983094334
VL - 217
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 974
EP - 979
BT - Assistive Technology: Building Bridges
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th European Conference on the Advancement of Assistive Technology, AAATE 2015
Y2 - 9 September 2015 through 12 September 2015
ER -