Early studies with visually impaired participants proficient in Braille typing have demonstrated that users can input at least six times the number of words per minute when compared to other research ...

One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. Our slick, button-less touchscreens are essentially useless to those who rely on touch to ...

01 August 2006 Tamkeen Centre recently organised a braille typing workshop for braille typing specialists from the GCC.The workshop came as part of Tamkeen's efforts to offer training programmes for ...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a glove that helps users learn to read and write Braille, all while focusing on unrelated activities. The wearable computer uses ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech developed an app that allows people who know how to type in Braille an easy way to do so on a smartphone. Traditional Braille typing devices are mobile, but heavy. And ...

According to a recent press release, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a prototype app for smartphones that allows anyone that’s proficient in Braille typing to type and send messages without ...

video: Georgia Tech researchers have designed a texting solution that could become a modern substitute for passing notes under the table. BrailleTouch is a prototype texting app that requires only ...

In an app coming to the market relatively soon for both iPhone and Android, Georgia Tech researchers have reduced the price of realistically typing Braille on a smartphone from $1700 plus the cost of ...

VIBRATING gloves could help children learn Braille. At the moment, just 10 per cent of blind school-age kids in the US learn it, partly because there are so few teachers. The gloves created by Caitlyn ...

A new smartphone and tablet app under development would let users text without ever looking at their phones. And if it takes off, it may make us all expert Braille typists in the future. Right now, it ...