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Use of Bar Code and RFID for the Visually Impaired in Educational Environment

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2004)

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Abstract

Getting information from a bar code or from RFID tags attached to equipments or surroundings is a promising step for building an information ensured area for the visually impaired. For example one can obtain an operation manual (voice version) from the tag attached to some electronic equipment. The purpose of the project we report here is the construction of such information ensured environment in the college life. We present two concrete examples: getting voice access to announcement on the bulletin board by using bar code, and messaging system between students and teacher by using RFID. We show that data-carrier technologies are effective for information ensuring for the visually impaired.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Tsukuba College of Technology, 4-12-7 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0821, Japan

    Hisayuki Tatsumi & Masahiro Miyakawa

  2. Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, 1030 Simo-ogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0292, Japan

    Yasuyuki Murai & Shinji Tokumasu

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  1. Hisayuki Tatsumi
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Association BrailleNet, 9, quai Saint Bernard, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    Dominique Burger

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Tatsumi, H., Murai, Y., Miyakawa, M., Tokumasu, S. (2004). Use of Bar Code and RFID for the Visually Impaired in Educational Environment. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_85

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