TETMOST

Making Art more accessible to Visually Impaired People

Developping a haptic interface and studying ways to intuitively represent images and Art pieces haptically for Visually Impaired People.

Research

Software Engineering

Java

Arduino

Human-Computer Interaction

Virtual Reality

Abstract

The goal of the TETMOST project was to make Art more accessible to Visually Impaired People. The project had two main axes: (1) researching and experimenting to find the most intuitive way to transcode an image into haptic sensations whilst retaining its original meaning and peculiarities, and (2) developping a novel haptic interface allowing VIP to explore images with their fingers.

My role in this project

1) Participated in the development of a Java app to control the F2T and display tactile “images”.

2) Investigated existing haptic interfaces, classifying them based on our needs, and buying/lending a prototype from each category.

3) Organized experimental evaluations with VIP to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each category of interfaces.

4) Participated in writing a poster and two conference articles: one on the F2T, and one on the image segmentation.