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A Concept for Re-useable Interactive Tactile Reliefs

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Abstract

We introduce a concept for a relief-printer, a novel production method for tactile reliefs, that allows to reproduce bas-reliefs of several centimeters height difference. In contrast to available methods, this printer will have a much smaller preparation time, and does not consume material nor produce waste, since it is based on a re-usable medium, suitable for temporary printouts. Second, we sketch a concept for the autonomous, interactive exploration of tactile reliefs, in the form of a gesture-controlled audio guide, based on recent depth cameras. Especially the combination of both approaches promises rapid tactile accessibility to 2.5D spatial information in a home or education setting, to on-line resources, or as a kiosk installation in museums.

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Notes

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    Multiple vendors offer talking pens, like the TalkingPEN (http://www.talkingpen.co.uk), Livescribe (http://www.edlivescribe.com) or Ravensburger tiptoi® (http://www.tiptoi.com).

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    3DPhotoWorks (http://www.3dphotoworks.com) recently created tactile reliefs for the exhibition “Sight Unseen” at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.

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    e.g. ViewPlus Braille Printers, http://www.viewplus.com.

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    Spaghetti noodles turned out to be a useful material, being very exact, hard, easy to acquire, low-cost and environmentally friendly, but are a bit brittle and sensitive to moisture and dirt. Further materials should be investigated in the future.

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    Andreas Reichinger, Kinect Pattern Uncovered. http://azttm.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/kinect-pattern-uncovered. Accessed March 2015.

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Acknowledgments

This work was performed within the framework of the project Deep Pictures, supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P24352-N23, and the Erasmus+ project AMBAVis (http://www.ambavis.eu) and has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Special thanks to Florian Rist and the Institut für Kunst und Gestaltung of the Vienna University of Technology, and to Thebert Metallbau GmbH (http://www.thebert.at).

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Reichinger, A., Fuhrmann, A., Maierhofer, S., Purgathofer, W. (2016). A Concept for Re-useable Interactive Tactile Reliefs. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_15

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