Prototype Design and its Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Interface to Support"Seeing","Hearing", and"Speaking".

设计了一种移动电话界面，使用包括2-D触觉显示器和触觉矩阵传感器的触觉设备来帮助“看”、“听”和“说”。在界面中，手机内部的摄像头感测图像或字符，这些信号被传输到由32个压电设备组成的触觉显示器。环境声音或语音也可以通过连接到手机上的麦克风来检测。声音的时间谱模式可以呈现在触觉显示器上。此外，通过触摸和跟踪触觉矩阵传感器获得的触觉信息可以通过手机显示在接收者的指尖上。这些功能有助于聋人、盲人和聋盲人等感官障碍者与正常人进行交流。

A mobile phone interface was designed for assisting"seeing","hearing", and"speaking"using a tactile device including a 2-D tactile display and a tactile matrix sensor. In the interface, images or characters are sensed by a camera inside the mobile phone, which signals are transmitted to the tactile display consisting of 32 piezo-electric devices. Environmental sounds or speech sounds can also be detected by a microphone attached to the mobile phone. Time spectral patterns of the sounds can be presented onto the tactile display. Furthermore, tactile information obtained by touching and tracing the tactile matrix sensor can be displayed onto a receiver's fingertip through the mobile phone. These functions were useful for sensory disabled persons such as the deaf, the blind and the deaf-blind to communicate with the normal.