DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : J.Srinivasa Rao
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : Electronics & Communications
Institution : Govt Polytechnic Bellampally
Year/semester : VI semester
Subject : Analytical Instrumentation
Subject Code : AEI- 603
Topic : Computer Applications in Medicine
Duration : 50mts
Sub Topic : Computerized aid to the physically

handicapped
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 Objectives
On completion of this period, you would be
able to know …

• Computerized aid for the Blind

• Computerized aid for the Deaf

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 Computerized aid to the Blind

• The Optacon is a direct translation device.

• It converts optical image of a printed character in a page of

a book to a vibrating, tactile facsimile.

• Electrical out put signals from the sensor array are

processed in a simple computer system.

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OPTICON

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 Contd…

• A blind reader with his finger tips in a tactile pad can feel
the tactile facsimile, like the Braille symbols.

• Graphics can also be communicated to the blind

students by means of a computer .

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OPTIOCON

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Computer Communication Diagrams in
Class Rooms for the Blind

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Optical Sensor with Tactile Pad for Blind
Students

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• Each student is provided with an optical sensor linked to
a vibrator.

• When the blind student scrolls the optical sensor over

the monitor screen, a tactile vibration is felt at illuminated
point on the monitor screen.

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• A globule of modeling clay is stuck on to the monitor
screen at each point where a vibration is felt.
• Thus the diagram is traced with globules of modelling
clay.
• The blind student can then feel the diagram’s shape by
passing his fingers over the globules.
• Later on the globules may be removed, by wiping them
off, to make the monitor ready for reading another
diagram.

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 Computerized Aid for the Deaf

• An auditory prosthesis is now available.

• It is based on electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve.

• It is used in cases where the transduction machinery of

the cochlea is totally defective.

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Auditory prosthesis

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 Summary

In this period, you have learnt about

Computerized aid for the blind.

Computerized aid for the deaf.

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 Quiz

• In Computerized aid for the blind which of the following

sensor is used.

a) Sound sensor

b) Optical sensor

c) Heat sensor

d) None

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 Frequently asked Questions

• Write about the computerized aid to the physically

handicapped.

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