Development of a Multimedium PC by the Tactile Control and Presentation for the Blind

为盲人计算机用户设计了一种基于gui的计算机辅助系统。用户界面采用触觉和听觉两种设备。设计了两个触觉装置用于触觉控制和触觉呈现。一种是触觉鼠标，安装在8 × 8因子引脚阵列上，可以捕获视觉显示终端。盲人用户通过触觉鼠标控制任何应用软件。另一个是触觉图形显示。该显示器由间距为3毫米的40 × 30个因数引脚组成。盲人用户感知图形图像，如图标，简单的图像和图形。此外，还介绍了一种供听众使用的语音合成器。盲人用户可以通过这个设备识别任何文本信息。在日本最受欢迎的Windows 98的实用软件。大多数应用软件，如文字处理器、电子表格和绘图都是在开发的系统上工作的。

An assistive system for a GUI-based PC was designed for blind computer user. Both tactile and auditory devices were applied for user interface.Two tactile devices were designed for the tactile control and presentation. One is a tactile mouse mounted an 8 x 8 tactor-pin array that captures a visual display terminal. Blind user controls any application software by the tactile mouse. The other is a tactile graphic display. This display was consisted of a 40 x 30 tactor pins with 3-mm interspacing. Blind users perceive graphic image such as the icons, simple images and graphs. In addition a speech synthesizer introduced for auditoryuse. Blind users recognize any text information by this device.Utility software considered for the Windows 98 that is the most popular in Japan. Most application software such as the word processor, the spreadsheet, and the picture drawing were worked on the developed system.