Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights: A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.

The article discusses the development of sensory substitution technology, a term for mobile application software and devices that collect visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli to help blind or deaf users. A history of devices and technology for the impaired is provided before covering topics such as...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 15 - 18
Main Author:	Mone, Gregory
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2018
Subjects:	Assistive technology Sensory disorders Services for the deaf Services for blind people Automatic speech recognition History of technological innovations Therapeutics Cost
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