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Haptic technical aids Distime, Monitor, Good vibrations, Ready-Ride and VibroBraille for improvement of Time perception, Environmental perception, music perception, mobility and communication for persons with deafblindness: Tactile aids
Audiological Research Centre, University Hospital At Örebro, Örebro, Seden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4130-7909
Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik.
Audiological Research Centre University Hospital At Örebro, Örebro, Sweden.
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication (DIV), Industrial Design.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2104-2317
2017 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There are approx. 1300 people with deafblindnes (DB) in Sweden where about 100 of them are with complete deafness (D) and blindness (B). The number will reach about 30000 if we also include people older than 65 with severe visual impairment (VI) and hearing impairment (HI) and several million worldwide.  Difficulties in time perception, environmental perception, music perception, mobility, social participation and communication are examples of their frequent problems. Five haptic technical aids are developed to reduce these problems. Distime is an application in a smart phone to inform the user about the planned activities by choosing different information channel depending on the sense that works and her/his ability. The activities can be presented as sound or vibrations for users with B; as images, movies and also as vibrations for those with D and vibrations for those with DB. Monitor informs users with D and DB about ongoing events with the aim to increase their environmental perception. Using an specific algorithm for environmental sounds, it converts the audible sounds produced by events to sensible vibrations which can be sensed and interpreted as events. Good Vibrations uses an specific algorithm for music and converts the audible music to vibrations which can be felt with the aim to increase music perception for users with severe HI, D/DB as well as for users with normal hearing who want extra enhanced experience of the music. Ready-Ride is a positioning and communication aid to improve the mobility of riders with severe VI, B or DB. It is used for distance communication between a trainer and a rider with VI where the trainer can send information about the rider’s position give commands or feedback about the riding. VibroBraille informs users with B/DB about the short notifications received from different applications in her/his cell phone. It converts the text to its corresponding Braille pattern where the active points are vibrating.

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Ahlborg, 2017.
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Engineering and Technology Occupational Therapy
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Medical Disability Research
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6085OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-6085DiVA, id: diva2:1167360
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The 9th DbI European conference on Deafblindness in Denmark, Aalborg, Denmark, September 5-8, 2017
Available from: 2017-11-21 Created: 2017-12-18 Last updated: 2020-03-30Bibliographically approved

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