Enlightened: The art of finger reading
Författare
Summary, in English
For some forty years the eye-tracking technology has facilitated the study of eye movement patterns for sighted people during reading and other visual activities. Today – a newly developed automatic finger tracking system makes it possible to reconstruct blind people’s tactile reading in real time and to automatically analyze finger movements during Braille text reading and tactile picture recognition. In this case study, the very first automatic finger tracking system is presented together with results indicating how Braille readers can increase awareness of their own reading styles. This opens up for future Braille
education to become more evidence-based and, at the same time, for a new research field: contrastive studies of language in its auditory, visual and tactile manifestations.
education to become more evidence-based and, at the same time, for a new research field: contrastive studies of language in its auditory, visual and tactile manifestations.
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
249-260
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Studia Linguistica
Volym
62
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Human Aspects of ICT
Nyckelord
- Fallstudier och användartester
- Synskador och blindhet
- certec
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1467-9582