Analysis of vibration characteristics for Body-Braille reading accuracy

Abstract

We have developed Body-Braille as an information transmission support tool for Deaf-Blind people. In this paper, improving the readability of Body-Braille is the goal. We investigated the optimal characteristics through two experiments. One is the reading of Body-Braille when produced by three types of motors, which are different in amplitude and frequency. The other is the reading of Body-Braille while changing the frequency with a fixed amplitude. As a result of the experiments, we revealed that the readability was influenced by both amplitude and frequency of the vibrator. Moreover we found that the optimal frequency band of the vibrator was in the range of 70Hz to 100Hz.