| 项目编号: | 1605226
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| 项目名称: | Desktop Co-robotic Assistant for Graphics and Text Access and Creation for Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired |
| 作者: | Dianne Pawluk
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| 承担单位: | Virginia Commonwealth University
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-02-01
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| 结束日期: | 2020-01-31
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| 资助金额: | 319004
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Engineering - Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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| 英文关键词: | individual
; co-robot
; computer
; creation
; coherent haptic system
; robotic assistant
; timely completion
; system
; equivalent access
; shared control
; desktop co-robot
; computer window
; information
; mouse-shaped tactile input/output component
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| 英文摘要: | 1605226 - Pawluk
In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 8 million individuals who are blind or visually impaired. In order for these individuals to reach their potential and be competitive with their peers, it is important that they have equivalent access to information to ensure timely completion of education and work tasks. Computers have become essential in these environments, creating information and collaborating with others, whether in the same room or remotely over the web. A lot of this interaction is highly spatial in nature, whether in the use and creation of graphics, interacting with others through a mouse or cursor, or searching for information in the spatial layout of text on a web page. For individuals who are blind or visually impaired, this spatial information is largely inaccessible. This project is intended to address this issue by developing a robotic assistant to provide haptic and Braille input and output to a computer, as well as aid an individual in exploration of the computer window.
The main goal of this grant is to provide a coherent haptic system that provides effective input and output of graphics and Braille on a full haptic page/window through a single device that can be used in a single hand posture. The objectives are to first develop a desktop co-robot to provide shared control with the user over a haptic interface to aid in exploring graphical and full page Braille information. A mouse-shaped tactile input/output component will be mounted on the co-robot to provide spatially distributed tactile feedback to the second and third fingers of the hand. Combined with a stationary version of the mouse, this will also allow simultaneous input of Braille text through button inputs and, in the future, the creation of graphical information. In developing this system, we will use a Participatory Action Design approach involving all stakeholders. The created system will then be validated in accessing graphical and full page text information, as well as editing full page text compared to current commercial and/or research devices. In addition, this system will be furthered by the development of techniques to effectively communicate the focus of attention between the user and collaborators. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/90583
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Dianne Pawluk. Desktop Co-robotic Assistant for Graphics and Text Access and Creation for Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired. 2017-01-01.
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