A wearable Malossi alphabet interface for deafblind people
A wearable Malossi alphabet interface for deafblind people
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专为聋盲人设计的可穿戴 Malossi 字母界面
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2008
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N. Caporusso
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N. Caporusso
聋盲人有严重程度的视觉和听觉综合障碍，导致沟通、（获取）信息和行动方面的问题。此外，为了与其他人互动，他们中的大多数人需要一个照顾者不断在场，他在为听力和视力正常的人组织的外部世界中扮演翻译的角色。因此，他们通常生活在一堵无形的沉默之墙后面，处于一种独特和令人费解的孤立状态。
在本文中，我们描述了DB-HAND，辅助硬件/软件系统，支持用户自主与环境进行交互，建立社会关系，并获得信息源，而无需助理。DB-HAND由一个输入/输出可穿戴外设（配备传感器和执行器的手套）组成，它可以作为一个自然的接口，因为它可以使用一种很容易被盲人学习的语言进行通信：Malossi方法。与DB-HAND的交互由软件环境管理，其目的是将文本转换为触觉刺激序列（反之亦然），执行命令并向其他用户传递消息。它还在多个标准输出设备上提供多模式反馈，以支持与听力和视力正常的人进行交互。
Deafblind people have a severe degree of combined visual and auditory impairment resulting in problems with communication, (access to) information and mobility. Moreover, in order to interact with other people, most of them need the constant presence of a caregiver who plays the role of an interpreter with an external world organized for hearing and sighted people. As a result, they usually live behind an invisible wall of silence, in a unique and inexplicable condition of isolation.
In this paper, we describe DB-HAND, an assistive hardware/software system that supports users to autonomously interact with the environment, to establish social relationships and to gain access to information sources without an assistant. DB-HAND consists of an input/output wearable peripheral (a glove equipped with sensors and actuators) that acts as a natural interface since it enables communication using a language that is easily learned by a deafblind: Malossi method. Interaction with DB-HAND is managed by a software environment, whose purpose is to translate text into sequences of tactile stimuli (and vice-versa), to execute commands and to deliver messages to other users. It also provides multi-modal feedback on several standard output devices to support interaction with the hearing and the sighted people.