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- Subject: Re: micro-plungers
- Message-ID: <8164@cui.unige.ch>
- From: pun@cui.unige.ch (PUN Thierry)
- Date: 21 Jul 92 11:08:43 GMT
- Reply-To: pun@cui.unige.ch (PUN Thierry)
- References: <kkoehn.711581003@sfu.ca>
- Organization: University of Geneva / Switzerland
- Keywords: blind Braille compressed robots
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- In article <kkoehn.711581003@sfu.ca> kkoehn@fraser.sfu.ca (Kaari David Koehn) writes:
- >For a possible challenge project, I'm thinking of a
- >display device for the blind.
- >Don't laugh: my concept is a grid of small plungers that can be
- >raised and lowered via computer control to show readable braille.
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- I worked on the computer vision aspects of a similar project in
- 1979-1982. At that time, there were quite a few papers describing
- such output devices, with vibrating rods, electrical sensors, even
- proposing direct stimulation of the visual cortex ...
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- A starting point could be: IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering,
- Special Issue on Electronic aspects of modern prosthesis, 29, 4,
- April 1982.
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- In my thesis, I also had collected quite a few references. It is
- available (by regular mail).
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- Good luck! I hope you will succeed.
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- Prof. Thierry Pun, Computer Vision Group
- Computing Science Center, U-Geneva
- 12, rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND
- Phone: +41(22) 787 65 82; fax: +41(22) 735 39 05
- E-mail: pun@cui.unige.ch [or pun@cgeuge51.bitnet]
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