Braille3D: Using haptic and voice feedback for braille recognition and 3D printing for the blind

Abstract

In today's state of technology, people can see the innovations that have evolved throughout time. One of those is assistive technology which exists to help impaired people from doing their daily activities. This technological advancement is made to help people accomplish tasks they could not perform before. Assistive innovations today reside on computers and people, not only the disabled, have become dependent on them as they make life more efficient and convenient. Accessibility has always been a challenge for people with disability. Researchers and inventors resolved this problem by integrating solutions and innovations into society which benefited the disabled community to let them experience a more convenient life, easing their burdens that hinders them from living an enjoyable life. Assistive technology was one of the solutions that innovators eventually came up with. Prosthesis was invented to be an extension to legs, arms, and other body parts for people who lost a limb, wheelchair for those people who were paralyzed or have difficulties in walking. Other assistive technologies were made to accommodate current technology such as accessible keyboards, text-to-speech software, and speech recognition software. With that said, the motivation of this is study is to contribute to the society by helping people with visual impairment to have more access to technology and to give them a better learning environment in which the person can learn the Braille system.