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Description
TactileCom is a system based on the direct combination of two of the developed interfaces: afferent interface of voice recognition and efferent interface of sensory stimulation, and a wireless link between the two interfaces. With these two interfaces the whole system allows to communicate using a number of predefined speech patterns (words, concepts, ideas) with a deaf or deaf-blind person, who will receive the information as tactile and visual stimulation if this person has a certain degree of residual vision. This communication can be done as long as the wireless link is feasible even if the users carrying each interface are not in the same room and, therefore, no direct line of sight between them.Other information
Number of researchers:
5
Development status:
In prototype phase
Intellectual Property Rights:
Susceptible de patente
Differentiation in the market:
Novelty
Applicability of technology:
Yes
Companies and markets:
Assisted and rehabilitation systems addressed to deaf people, and specially, deaf-blind people.
Advantages:
Sensory substitution system for deaf people, and specially, deaf-blind people. The system combines these two interfaces in a wireless bluetooth communication channel that allows the exchange of information between them.
Additional Information:
This TACTILECOM system has been introduced in a conference during the year 2013 (DRT4all 2013) of great importance at European level in the work field of the research group. As a result of this conference and because of the dissemination it does for the introduced devices, many press notes have emerged interested on the device and videos both for the features and results' exhibit and a performance demonstration. A collaboration is in progress with associations as ASOCYL (Association of deaf-blinds of Castilla y León) and with particular persons, to promote the distribution of the system among the potential users. With the objective of making the system reach as many people as possible, the possibility of building a system is made available to those potential subjects, as long as they have the necessary equipment, having the support of lab researchers and getting the necessary support (email: alonso3@tel.uva.es), instructions and software to reach proper functioning if required.
UNESCO Code:
3311 - Instrumentation technology
Other members:
Ramón de la Rosa Steinz
Albano Carrera González
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