We understand accessibility the extent to which any person may use a system or access a service regardless of their technical, physical and cognitive or to extend the use of technological devices around the world need to develop systems tailored to people who have some type of disability. Democratizing access to technology is something that manufacturers and researchers have much to contribute and, for example, the Samsung eyeCan fulfilled this function. In Germany, a research team from the University of Art Berlin has put the focus on developing a system to enable deaf-blind manage your smartphone and writable for which they have developed a tactile element that is a main glove.
LORM Mobile Glove, which is the name of this system is a project developed at the Laboratory for Research in Design by Tom Bieling, Ulrike Gollner and Gesche Joost to expect that people who are deaf-blind can read and write in tablets and smartphones and, eventually, to access the contents of electronic books.
The system builds on the alphabet LORM or Lormen, a language used in Germany and other European countries and the United States that is based partners that touch the palms of your hands to press specific points that are defining the different letters of alphabet. Based on this communication system, the Mobile LORM Glove uses a glove which has deployed a series of sensors and actuators that are used to "translate" texts to pulsations on the palm of the user and vice versa as the user may also put pressure on the sensors and perform a given text.
The whole character stream is sent to a mobile device using a Bluetooth connection and, for example, in the case of receiving an SMS message in the terminal, the system translates the user using the language LORM through this glove.
A very interesting project that also allows open access to technology to more people. android,blind,deaf,Glove,iPhone,LORM,Mobile Glove,science,smartphones,Technology,Tom Bieling
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