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A Survey on Innovative Refreshable Braille Display Technologies

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Advances in Design for Inclusion (AHFE 2017)

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This works presents a survey on recent technologies applied for Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD): these devices allow the dynamic rendering of refreshable Braille characters, analogously to a computer monitor rendering text and other visual information. Although commercially available RBD share a similar technology based on piezo actuators, and feature a single line of characters at a relatively high cost, alternative solutions have been proposed in recent years. They include adaptation of existing actuators and technologies to the rendering of Braille, and innovative materials used for developing actuators appositely designed for RBDs. In this survey, we compare performance of the above methods analyzing potential benefits and limitations of the different technologies.

D. Leonardis and C. Loconsole are both first authors of this paper because of their equal contribution.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Braille Lab project (code SIN_00190) funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research within the “Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation” program.

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    Daniele Leonardis & Antonio Frisoli

  2. Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

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Leonardis, D., Claudio, L., Frisoli, A. (2018). A Survey on Innovative Refreshable Braille Display Technologies. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_46

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