The fingerreader is a ring like device that.
Finger reader for blind working.
In our previous work we have created a fingerreader v0 finger worn assistive augmentation with the vision of empowering and enabling people with visual impairments.
At mit s media labs researchers roy shilkrot jochen huber and others are working on the fingerreader a ring like device that straps itself around your finger and reads printed text out.
And have the results spoken back to them.
Right now the only solution is disabling the touch recognition component of the device.
Wired reporter sandy ong highlights the work of prof.
Keeping everything on fingerreader the same the user s finger is likely to disrupt the movable text.
In this paper we present our work from the past 18 months.
To do that says co researcher dr.
Suranga nanayakkara who as a postdoc at mit helped develop the finger reader a device aimed at helping people with visual impairments read without the need for clunky hardware.
Blind people s abilities to gain more independence a charac teristic widely identiļ¬ed as important by our interviewees.
With fingerreader blind users are able to simply point at products text phases etc.