Hi.
I was just wondering if anyone here have tried this products, and if so,
how good are they?

Best wishes
Andreas Granqvist


At 15:22 2002-09-13 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Similar complementary tactile and auditory display
>technology for the blind is also available from
>the ifeelpixel and seeingwithsound websites. It
>works with regular (affordable!) tactile mice as
>also used by the sighted with games. The following
>URLs give more information:
>
>(ifeelpixel for the tactile feedback)
>http://www.ifeelpixel.com/description/
>http://www.ifeelpixel.com/screenshots/#thevoice
>
>and
>
>(The vOICe for the soundscape feedback)
>http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm
>http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winmath.htm
>
>The ifeelpixel software is currently available
>for beta testing, from the web page at the URL
>
>http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/
>
>The ifeelpixel tactile mouse software and The vOICe
>Learning Edition soundscape software are meant to be
>used in combination, to give you a soundscape view of
>any graphics while you check out the graphical details
>with your tactile mouse. For instance, you may import
>an image file into The vOICe software via its file
>requester (Control o) to hear the corresponding (often
>very complex) soundscape, and you can just maximize
>The vOICe window to occupy the entire screen area. This
>will then give you relevant tactile feedback from the
>ifeelpixel software as you move the mouse pointer over
>the screen area while you keep hearing the soundscape
>overview of the full image. There are many other
>possibilities and modes of working, but this hopefully
>gives some idea. It may be used to access purely graphical
>material such as graphs and function plots, but also
>photographs, thus complementing what you can already
>do with your screen reader.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Peter Meijer
>
>
>Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
>http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm
>
>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:20:58 -0400, Kennedy, Bud <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
> >Scientists Develop Computer Mouse for the Blind
> >Mon Sep 9, 9:32 AM ET
> >
> >LEICESTER, England (Reuters) - Scientists looking for ways to help blind
> >people get more out of computers have developed a mouse that goes bump and
> >combined
> >it with sound representations of graphs that would otherwise be
> >inaccessible.
> >
> >Mike Burton of Glasgow University told reporters at the British Association
> >for the Advancement of Science (
> >news -
> >web sites)
> >annual festival the mouse vibrated every time it met a line on a graph,
> >giving a blind operator a tactile tip-off.
> >
> >"The technique is a very good way of presenting information to blind and
> >sighted people," he said. "The bottom line is that the cheapest and most
> >flexible
> >solution works."
> >
> >Likening the jumping mouse to electronic Braille, Burton said one of the
> >most daunting tasks facing visually impaired people was trying to
>assimilate
> >information
> >giving an overview of data or events.
> >
> >Reinforcing the tactile jolt of the mouse, fellow Glasgow University
> >scientist Stephen Brewster said his team had developed sound graphs that
> >could be combined
> >with the mouse.
> >
> >Lines on a graph were represented by tones that would vary in pitch
> >according to whether the line was rising or falling.
> >
> >Several such tones could be used to represent different lines of the same
> >graph as the user entered a "soundscape."
> >
> >"You can get across quite complex information just using sound," he said,
> >adding that the technique could even be of use to sighted people such as
> >share
> >traders who could be alerted on their mobile phones by a tone representing
>a
> >move up or down.
> >
> >He declined to speculate on the sound of a stock market crash.
>
>
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