A Braille Display System for the Visually Disabled Using a Polymer Based Soft Actuator

Biomedical Applications of Electroactive Polymer Actuators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 427-442

  Choi, Hyouk Ryeol ^a   Koo, Ig Mo ^a   Jung, Kwangmok ^b   Roh, Se Gon ^a   Koo, Ja Choon ^a   Nam, Jae Do ^a   Lee, Young Kwan ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Pohang Institute of Intelligent Robotics (PIRO)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design and fabrication technique; Dynamic Braille display; Graphical user interface (GUI); Hit recognition rate (HRR); Incompressible thin circular elastomer film; Intellectual information; Mechanical actuation; Number recognition rate (NRR); Tactile sensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890692832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744697.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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