AÑO
2021
CATEGORÍA
Cuerpo
OBJETIVOS
Reducción de las desigualdades
PAL. CLAVE
Braille Technology , Visually Impaired, vibration, apps, haptic technology
PAÍS
Malaysia
CRÉDITOS
Nur Omar & Nurin Muaz
LINK
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2020/project/vibraille/
Vibraille
Mobile application that lets the visually impaired read digital materials through vibrations
Vibraille enables blind communities to read digital materials using phones by sensing the vibration. Vibraille translated the codes following the Braille pattern and eliminates the mainstream approach which uses external devices and voice reader.
Common apps usually use voice reader to aid the visually impaired group to read. This will invade their privacy when the reading material is being read out loud especially in public. They cannot read in silence. Vibraille app enforces the privacy element and personal element to the user that the vibration can only be sensed by the user's finger. This app is also cost-effective and independent from any external device such as earphones or machines. People from all age groups are now using smartphones and we take advantage of the existing built-in vibration features in phones and implement it into Vibraille. We believe that Vibraille can remove this limitation. With Vibraille, they no longer need text-to-speech and external devices.