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Expansion Characteristic of Tactile Symbols on Swell Paper

Effects of Heat Setting, Position and Area of Tactile Symbols

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Abstract

Swell paper is one method of making tactile graphics. Its expansion heights are affected by several factors. Of them, in this study, we changed three parameters: the heat setting and the position and the size of the tactile images. The expansion heights of the tactile images with various parameters were measured by using a 3D measurement system. As the results, we found the quantitative effects of these parameters on the expansion heights of tactile images.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26350654 and RISTEX, JST.

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  1. Graduate School, University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan

    Takahiro Hashimoto

  2. Faculty of Engineering, University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan

    Tetsuya Watanabe

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Hashimoto, T., Watanabe, T. (2016). Expansion Characteristic of Tactile Symbols on Swell Paper. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_10

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