TY - GEN
T1 - Aiding the visually impaired
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017
AU - Apurva, Anubhav
AU - Thakur, Palash
AU - Misra, Anupam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/30
Y1 - 2017/11/30
N2 - With the large number of partially or completely visually impaired persons in society, their integration as productive, educated and capable members of society is hampered heavily by a pervasively high level of braille illiteracy. This problem is further compounded by the fact that braille printers are prohibitively expensive - generally starting from two thousand US dollars, beyond the reach of the common man. Over the period of a year, the authors have tried to develop a Braille printer which attempts to overcome the problems inherent in commercial printers. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to introduce two prototypes -The first with an emphasis of costeffectiveness, and the second prototype, which is more experimental and aims to eliminate several demerits of Braille printing. The first prototype has been constructed at a cost significantly less than the existing commercial Braille printers.
AB - With the large number of partially or completely visually impaired persons in society, their integration as productive, educated and capable members of society is hampered heavily by a pervasively high level of braille illiteracy. This problem is further compounded by the fact that braille printers are prohibitively expensive - generally starting from two thousand US dollars, beyond the reach of the common man. Over the period of a year, the authors have tried to develop a Braille printer which attempts to overcome the problems inherent in commercial printers. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to introduce two prototypes -The first with an emphasis of costeffectiveness, and the second prototype, which is more experimental and aims to eliminate several demerits of Braille printing. The first prototype has been constructed at a cost significantly less than the existing commercial Braille printers.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126160
DO - 10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042637195
VL - 2017-January
T3 - 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017
SP - 2128
EP - 2133
BT - 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 13 September 2017 through 16 September 2017
ER -