The first prototype of the BlindPAD as a full portable device is ready and tested at FIRR in Poland and Chiossone in Italy. In the video Prof. Herbert Shea from EPFL explains the BlindPAD.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-touchable-tablet-to-guide-the-visually-impaired/
At the Makerstown the first qualitive results of the experiments in Poland with the 12×16 BlindPAD was presented. Also, the proto1 was demonstrated onsite.
At the World Haptics J.J Zarate, N. Besse, O. Gudozhnik, A. Ruch, H. Shea, demonstrated the “Portable pin array with 192 fast latching taxels”. Also an oral presentation was given about the portable pins. Many people tried out the demonstrator. A lighter version of the proto1, which was used at the first prototypes was presented at the World Haptics.
At the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017 in Denver a paper was accepted to demonstrate the latest version of BlindPAD together with a simple game of Pong – Haptic Pong.
Nadine Besse, Herbert Shea, Juan Zarate, Samuel Rosset, Luca Brayda presented the “4×4 SMP demo” at the Haptics Symposium 2016 conference held from April 8th till 11th 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to that also a publication was successful at the Symposium.
Impressions from the Symposium
