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

设计了一种移动的电话接口，用于使用包括2-D触觉显示器和触觉矩阵传感器的触觉设备来辅助“看”、“听”和“说“。在界面中，图像或字符由移动的电话内的摄像头感测，该信号被传输到由32个压电器件组成的触觉显示器。环境声音或语音声音也可以通过附接到移动的电话的麦克风来检测。声音的时间频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移动的电话显示在接收者的指尖上。这些功能可帮助聋人、盲人和半盲者等感官残疾人与正常人进行交流。

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.