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Multimodal vision glove for touchscreens

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This paper presents the development of an inexpensive haptic glove enabling people with visual impairments to picture and interact with basic algebra graphs through multiple points of interaction on touchscreens. The glove sends vibrations to each finger representing a direction which the user must follow to reach a graph on a grid. Through repeated movement, a person will reach, trace, and visualize the graph. Evaluations by thirteen students with visual impairments indicated that visualizing a graph, using multiple points of interaction with haptic feedback, is much faster than single-point-interaction with audio feedback.

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2008
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ISBN:9781595939760
DOI:10.1145/1414471
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  1. accessibility (blind and visually impaired)
  2. graphing
  3. haptic feedback
  4. touch screens
  5. vibration
  6. visualization

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